Q: In the final sprint, if you lose your majority, and you have to go in minority, I know you’ve been asking for majority, is that a loss to you? What right would you have to stay as leader if you do lose the government its majority? Secondly, I know you had a great time in there, but do you think it’s really appropriate to campaign to children?

Sounds like maybe a journalist is struggling to cope?

Albanese:

You bet. I think this election is about young Australians. I make no apologies for going into a school, because I’m giving schools better funding. That’s what I’m doing. How do you tell people we’re giving schools better funding without going into a school?

One of the great privileges I have had as prime minister and the member for Grayndler, over a period of time, going into schools and going into early education centres.

Q: The question about losing the majority. If you lose the majority and you go into minority, is that considered a loss to you?

Albanese:

What I’m about is maximising our position on Saturday. We take nothing for granted. No prime minister has been re-elected in this country having served a full term since 2004. … Minority government… We have a mountain to climb. It is difficult for Labor to be re-elected. I take absolutely nothing for granted at this election campaign.

My job is to go out there, put forward the policies that we have, the Australian people will vote. And we’ll see what happens on Saturday.

But I think we’ve run a positive campaign, we’ve run a clear campaign, we haven’t waited for elections to be called before – well, they didn’t really wait for the election to be called, they waited for this week – I don’t know if they’re costings are out there, anyone know that? No. Well, it’s… You know. I mean, for goodness sake, how do you take this mob seriously when they’ve to hide half that are shadow ministers, I mean, I’m sure Andrew Hastie hasn’t been in any schools, to be fair, because he hasn’t been anywhere.

You know, he’s the shadow defence minister. The shadow foreign minister, I was in his seat the other day with you, the member for Banks. He hasn’t been sighted. This is the alternative government of Australia. And Angus Taylor is busy counting numbers.