Question: At the start of this campaign you were written off. Why did people underestimate you so much, given you have flipped the polls in a couple of weeks, you’re in the lead and your Opposition Leader is being caught seemingly woefully unprepared?

Anthony Albanese:

I have said before a number of times – I have been underestimated from time to time … I am captain of an extraordinary team. We’re putting forward our record which we’re proud of, but also our proposals that we have taken forward, that we started to announce many, many months ago. We were waiting for the Coalition to announce some policies. All they have now is a $600 billion nuclear plan, free lunches for bosses, and cuts to pay for it all. That’s really all they have. And now this – as the Treasurer described it – laughable plan, aspiration, to do something about tax that they’re increasing during this campaign. But the truth is that it’s hard to win a second term. You know, we’re trying to climb a mountain. We’re a few steps up that mountain, it’s a long way to get to the peak.