Oliver Peterson: Australian correspondent on new polls showing Labor has an early lead in the Australian election

There's less than a week to go before the Australian general election- but new polls show Labor is holding an early lead.

The latest national Newspoll has given Labor a 52–48 lead, unchanged from the April 14-17 poll.

Australian correspondent Oliver Peterson says the Opposition has tried to turn their luck around over the last couple of weeks.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ollie Peterson six PR Perth Live Presenters with us a Oli, Hey, Heather.
So looks like a hung parliament, does it?

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (00:06):
It does.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
And as you just played in the World Wise, the
clip of what's the price of a dozen eggs is
about as interesting as our election campaign is. To be
perfectly blunt with you, I think we're sick of it.
Bring it on. They've had four debates, but fifty two
forty eight is what the latest news poll released in
The Australian Today shows when it comes to the two
party preferred question between the Labor Party and the coalition.

(00:28):
That hasn't really shifted in the last couple of weeks.
And I think that you started to see the Liberal
Party in particular throw the kitchen sink it trying to
see any mud will stick. Because that primary vote of
Peter Dutton's and the Liberal Party has plummeted from forty
percent back in November to now thirty five percent, so
the same level it was back in twenty twenty two.
This is all pointing two. As you said, they're header

(00:50):
a hung parliament. So Anthony Albanezi, if he used to
win the election on Saturday night, they need to negotiate
with the cross Bench, particularly the Teals and the Greens
to manage supply.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
And I don't know. I hate the idea of hung parliaments.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
We went through it with Tony Winds and Rob Oakshot
and the Gillard years and I don't want to do
that again.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
Just just get on with it, please.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
What's the problem with the welcome to country ceremonies.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
Well, Peter Dutton has indicated off the back of the
Antac Day commemoration ceremonies where the commemorations in both Melbourne
and Perth at the dawn service were I only to
say ruined this too strong a word, but we're interrupted
by people indicating they didn't like the welcome to country ceremonies.
Peter Dutton's jumped onto that and indicated that it is
just being overdone at the moment. He would like to

(01:34):
see it only reserved for major events. He's had a
crack at quantas as example, because when your land are
somewhere in Australia, they will acknowledge the local people of
the local tribe.

Speaker 3 (01:44):
And says that's overdone.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
I think he's getting a bit of mileage out of
this one, though, Heather, because it does, and it has
started to feel a bit tokenistick in this country. A
lot of these welcomed a country ceremonies and look, when
they're done well and they're done powerfully, they're outstanding. But
when they are just done because you have to basically
tick a box, you think, well, why are we doing it?
And I think that's some of the sentiment that came
out of Anzac Day that a lot of veterans in
particular find it quite difficult to comprehend that they're being

(02:09):
welcome to the country that they fought.

Speaker 3 (02:11):
To help save during the wars. So look this one again.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
As I said, they're throwing the kitchen sink at everything
at the moment to try and wrestle a few votes
back from those outlier parties. This is one that's getting
a lot of attraction in Australia today.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
Do you think, though, that it's enough. I mean, generally
it's accepted wisdom that what we vote about is the
economy and how we're feeling, and we've got enough money
in our pockets. So is something like this enough to
switch things around?

Speaker 3 (02:35):
I don't think so.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
But I think he's probably trying to capitalize off the
back of the no vote to the Voice referendum, and
he's feel like he's trying to link those issues and
knows the sentiment wasn't there for that only a matter
of months ago.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
Really it feels like it was almost two years.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
He's looking that he can perhaps leverage that sentiment in
Australia into people deciding that they might not give a
vote to the Labor Party this Saturday because that primary
vote again for both major parties, though Heather, he's very low,
you know, they're both in the thirty percent mark. Although
if the Greens vote it helps obviously the Labor Party.
The Libs are the ones who are particularly worry But
I agree with you. I don't think this is going

(03:10):
to be somebody's major issue when they go to the
ballot box on Saturday.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
Now, what is going on in Brisbane? There is a
situation where a guy keeps on coming onto a family's
property to swim in the pool. Who is this guy?

Speaker 2 (03:23):
They don't know, but he's done it five times since
January and he's got a routine. So he goes to
the Stevens home. He's obviously scoping it out, knows they're
not home. He leaves his shoes at the front door,
goes around to the back of the house and jumps
in the pool.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
They reckon.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
He's sweaty when he arrives, so he's probably been for
a bit of a run and he just goes, well, hey,
no one's home.

Speaker 3 (03:42):
He's going to jump in and just have a bit.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
Of a no fence or gate.

Speaker 3 (03:45):
Well, there's a fence in the gate.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
There's obviously security camera in now too, because they've released
the vision to say, anybody know.

Speaker 3 (03:51):
Who the rogue swimmer is? This is just this is
so Queensland that they're weird up there. They're so weird,
the Queenslanders. It doesn't really surprise me.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
That is pretty weird. Are you telling me that he is?
So he's leaving his shoes and he is scaling some
sort of a barrier, so he must know, like he
knows they've got a pool.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
Well that he knows I've got a pool.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
And as the homeowners have said, the Stevens family, it's
just really creepy and weird because he clearly knows they're
not home. He's been scoping out the property. They wonder
if he's going for a swim as a bit of
a reconnaissance to maybe come in and you steal a
few items from the house.

Speaker 3 (04:24):
So the cops they're into it now. They're investigating the incident.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
He could be charge of trespassing and even more if
they catch him in there. They find him in the
pool when they arrive, he could be in strife. But
I reckon after he's probably seen himself on the television
news services last night, I reckon he's going to be
finding a new pool.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
Yeah, maybe, Ollie. Thank you thanks for giving us some
context so we can understand they're just weird. That's Oliver Peterson,
six pm Perth Life presenter.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
Imagine that that happened to you.

Speaker 1 (04:52):
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