Albanese:

There is a real choice before the Australian people this Saturday. The Liberals and Nationals have spent three years raging about problems that their decade in office created, with not a word to say about solutions, no proposals of their own, just militant opposition to our cost-of-living measures and mindless negativity. The Coalition have spent three years trying to make life harder for Australians because they thought it would make politics easier for them. Talking Australia down to try to build themselves up.

The Liberals have not changed and they have not learned. It is very clear to all that they have simply not done the work that you need to do if you are to present as a credible alternative government.

Now, I can tell them this – the Australian people have worked hard in the face of unprecedented challenges – the worst global inflation since the 1980s, the biggest international energy crisis since the 1970s, conflict overseas, and natural disasters at home.

Australians have worked hard and today underlines the real progress that we have made together. When we came to government less than three years ago, inflation was over 6% and it was rising. Today, it’s down to 2.4%.

Real wages have grown five quarters in a row. Interest rates have started to come down, and more jobs have been created in the last three years than during any term of government since federation.