Federal election live: ‘He doesn’t forget’: Albo gets Trump warning

Anthony Albanese officially has called the election but first, he’s been told to rectify “awful” comments made about Donald Trump.

Welcome to day two of the election and our live coverage as campaigning gets underway in earnest.

The battle buses and planes of the two major parties will now crank into action criss crossing the country.

Polls are tipping a likely minority government, meaning neither major party is able to win at least 76 seats of the total 150 in the House of Representatives.

Currently, Labor can only lose two of its current 78 seats if it wants to maintain a majority government, while the Coalition have an uphill battle to win 21 extra seats in order to govern outright.

Anthony Albanese said the election would be a “choice between Labor’s plan to keep building or Peter Dutton’s promise to cut”. The opposition leader argued “we can’t afford three more years of Labor”.

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Originally published as Federal election live: ‘He doesn’t forget’: Albo gets Trump warning