Just back to Peter Dutton’s press conference for a moment – he is already in post-mortem mode:

We should have called out Labor’s lies earlier on. That’s something I have commented on before. But again, I think Australians as time has gone on, through this campaign, and they have seen the negative ads and see the posters, etc, as they go to the polling booths, people are smarter than that. They know, hang on, Anthony Albanese is talking about how good Medicare is. Bulk-billing rates are down by 11%. People are paying $43 out of pocket to go and see a doctor.

If you live here in Strathpine, or at Kallangur or in other areas around the country, in outer metropolitan areas, people are not making doctors’ appointments under this Government.

So I think there will be a level of backlash and a protest vote against the Labor Party for some of these false claims that have been made. The Prime Minister can’t look the Australian people in the eye and say they’re better off after three years. He can’t even answer that question when he’s – when it’s put to him at the Press Club. So the Prime Minister can’t tell you how you’re better off after three years, how do you expect, you know, to tell the story years’ old.

You can’t, because you’re not. The Prime Minister won’t tell people they’re better off after three years because you’re not. Now is the time to change a bad Government.

If we have a global recession or uncertainty in our region, you don’t want a Labor-Greens Government in power. Have a look at the economy in Victoria. Labor near destroy that economy and it’s a tragedy because it’s such a great state and we will rebuild Victoria. But when you have a look at what this Government has done, the hurt, the personal family hurt, that the Albanese Government has delivered on Australians is without precedent. We have had almost two years of negative household growth. A family of two, an average family is $50,000 worse off under this Government. And I think that people in increasing numbers will send a message to Mr Albanese that we’re in the happy about the last three years and they’ll support their Liberal-National Party candidate. If we do that, we can get this country back on track. We’ll get our economy well managed again and provide support to those families who are really in need.