00:00In the pre-dawn light, the Prime Minister sets off to set a date with destiny.
00:08Prime Minister is now leaving the lodge, so this is it.
00:13All designed to play out live on breakfast TV.
00:17A short trip from the Prime Minister's residence to the grounds of Government House.
00:23And 20 minutes later, he'd pulled the trigger for an election on the 3rd of May.
00:29Ready to go?
00:31You bet.
00:33Born ready.
00:34Ready with a direct appeal to Australians.
00:37Your vote has never been more important.
00:40Urging them to stick with what they know.
00:42The world today is an uncertain place, but I am absolutely certain of this.
00:51Now is not the time for cutting and wrecking,
00:54for aiming low, punching down or looking back.
00:59Both leaders battling to frame the contest to come.
01:03This election is a choice.
01:05This election is a choice.
01:07Between Labor's plan to keep building.
01:09About who can better manage our economy.
01:12Or Peter Dutton's promise to cut.
01:14On home turf in Brisbane, Peter Dutton is setting out to make history
01:19and become the first opposition leader in nearly a century to turf out a first term government.
01:25His mission?
01:26To crystallise voter anger over the cost of living.
01:29The question that Australians need to ask is,
01:32are you better off today, is our country better off today than three years ago?
01:36While much of the Coalition's agenda is yet to come,
01:39the two parties enter this campaign with starkly different policies on tax, housing and energy.
01:46The common thread is cost of living, the defining feature of this election.
01:51The polls are pointing to a tight contest.
01:54For Peter Dutton to win, he needs to pick up nearly 20 seats.
01:58While Anthony Albanese is holding onto power by the slimmest of margins.
02:03If Labor wins a second term, is it your intention to serve a full term as Prime Minister?
02:07Yes.
02:08The Prime Minister's fighting to hold on to Labor's majority,
02:11but he's fending off attacks from the Liberals on his right and the Greens to his left.
02:16With a minority government on the cards this election,
02:20this is a once in a generation chance to keep Peter Dutton out and get Labor to act.
02:27After three years, it all comes down to the next five weeks.
02:31Competing visions for Australia's future and a lot more of this.
02:36This thing here, your Medicare card.
02:39The writs have been issued and parliament prorogued.
02:43Those cannons are a signal that there's something else going on today.
02:49As it will each and every day for all 36 remaining.
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