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05/17/19 8:58 PM

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Australian federal election 2019: Scott Morrison and Bill Shorten head to the polls as voting begins – politics live

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Bill Shorten starts Australian federal election day 2019 with a morning run in Melbourne.
The Labor leader and prime minister Scott Morrison will be heading to the polling booths
today along with millions of Australians. Photograph: Mike Bowers/The Guardian

Calla Wahlquist
@callapilla

Fri 17 May 2019 20.50 EDT
First published on Fri 17 May 2019 18.11 EDT

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2019/may/18/australian-federal-election-2019-bill-shorten-scott-morrison-bob-hawke-polls-polling-vote-labor-coalition-liberals-australia-candidates-seats-odds-results-politics-live

Blue sky Saturday, with no armed guards, or any guns near polling stations. Relatively short lines and sausage sizzles.

LOL And am pretty confident, though polls have shortened (no pun intended) through the campaign days, of a Labor win.

How's that for a top T-shirt!

It's as far from Trump as it is from San Francisco to Sydney.