00:00Always the campaign's starting line, the capital is rarely an electoral battleground.
00:09The Prime Minister made one early stop to refuel.
00:12I'm trying to keep fit here for the campaign and it's just about to go out the window.
00:17The opposition leader is yet to visit, even though Canberra was always on his mind.
00:22You have a policy of reducing the public service by 41,000 places.
00:25In Canberra, we're not reducing the public service.
00:26Only in Canberra.
00:27We've been very clear about that from day one.
00:29But that message hadn't got through to his Senate candidate.
00:33Not all 41,000 in ACT and I think one third in ACT.
00:38Peter Dutton's revelation a political gift to the two incumbents.
00:43It would end this town.
00:44It would end small business.
00:45It would end the private sector.
00:47That would devastate the ACT economy.
00:49It would plunge us into recession.
00:51Earlier, thousands of Canberrans were left in medical limbo when one of the city's few
00:56bulk billing general practices went into administration.
01:00Labor has offered a multi-million dollar lifeline.
01:03We want to see more significant numbers of bulk billing and 100% bulk billing clinics across
01:10the territory.
01:11A pledge he hopes will help fend off a spirited independent challenge.
01:15Labor holds all three of the territory's lower house seats on large margins.
01:20And a loss in any would be an upset.
01:24Less certain but still looking good for Labor is the once bellwether seat of Eden Manero across
01:29the border.
01:30Meanwhile, the Liberals' hopes of reclaiming an ACT Senate seat appear slim.
01:36One real unknown is whether at his second tilt, the popular David Pocock could even out-poll
01:42his senior Labor counterpart.
01:43It's certainly very, very different this time.
01:46I had absolutely no idea what I was doing last time, what I was getting myself into.
01:50We take nothing for granted, never have, never will.
01:53Every vote here we have to argue for.
01:56An argument nearing its triennial conclusion.
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