Only one more day to go. But before we get there let's look back on the day that was:
the Coalition has released its policy costings which includes an extra $9 billion of savings;
part of this is a $4.5 billion cut to the foreign aid budget to pay for infrastructure projects;
there will also be a rephasing of the Murray Darling water buyback scheme as well as additional cuts to the public service;
Labor says the document is a "farce" because it is only a list of cuts rather than a budget strategy;
Labor leader Kevin Rudd gave his final set speech of the campaign and warned people life under a Coalition government would be "radically different"; and
all parties and candidates are preparing for the last day of the campaign.
My thanks, as always, to you for reading and commenting. A big rap for Andrew Meares and Alex Ellinghausen.
We will be back in the morning.
(And a reminder we will also be with you for election day and the aftermath - whatever they may bring.)
And we head towards the end of the day with a different sort of selfie.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd tours Thompson Square in Windsor, NSW, on Thursday.Credit: POOL/Mike Bowers
If you would like the see the documents released by the Coalition I now have them available for you.
The Coalition's foreign affairs spokeswoman, Julie Bishop, has released the party's policy in that area.
It mentions foreign aid.
"We are concerned about the rapid increase in foreign aid, described in the 2011 Independent Review Into Aid Effectiveness as 'steep and challenging', in light of real concerns about the ability of AusAid and other agencies to manage such a programme efficiently and effectively," the document says.
"We also do not believe that the Australian community is entirely comfortable with the government's doubling of an already large overseas development assistance budget rapidly without robust performance benchmarks - especially as Labor has slashed spending in important areas like Defence."
A Coalition government would also review Australia's diplomatic presence overseas within six months.
Business writer Michael Pascoe doesn't think much of the Coalition's costings.
"Even if you take year three and four budget projections seriously (and you really can't, as everyone should now know) that works out to be an average improvement of $1.5 billion a year on a $400 billion budget - all of 0.375 per cent," Michael writes.
"It's not even a rounding error. A half decent Queensland storm can blow that away in half in hour."
Greens leader Christine Milne is responding to the Coalition's costings.
"How much of what is left [of the foreign aid budget] is going to be spent on tent cities on Nauru and cruelty towards asylum seekers?" Senator Milne says.
Senator Milne says it is "shocking" to suggest foreign aid should be cut to fund infrastructure.
"Tony Abbott is not only bad for this country - he is bad for the region," she says.
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UNICEF got its response out quickly to the cuts to foreign aid funding.
"It's clear the Coalition no longer has the same desire to deliver on poverty reduction and good governance it held during the Howard years," the chief executive of UNICEF Australia, Norman Gillepsie, says.
"Mr Hockey may well wish to argue the economy will grow faster under a Coalition but his costings are at the expense of children's lives."
Mr Albanese says the Coalition is the "favourite to win" on Saturday but he believes Labor can win.
Mr Albanese says the Coalition is making "vicious cuts" and names the Murray Darling funding rephasing which will affect the people of Adelaide and "anyone who cares about the environment".
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Let's get Labor's reaction from Anthony Albanese.
"They're not policy costings, they're a farce," Mr Albanese says.
"That document is not a policy costing....What we aren't seeing is any of the documentation for any of this work. They've been hiding their costings, they've been hiding their candidates."
