Week four of the federal election campaign shrank to three working days – bookended by Easter Monday and ANZAC Day – and was upended by the death of Pope Francis, briefly halting campaigns by Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton. Dutton’s own mis-fires – touting a $21 billion defence splurge, scrapping the 20 per cent HECS discount, axing EV subsidies, and floating an antisemitism-focused citizenship test – clashed with mortgage-stressed voters hearing nonstop “cost-of-living crisis” headlines despite inflation falling and wages rising. Fresh opinion polls put Labor ahead at around 54–46, leaving the only real question of whether there would be majority Labor government or minority backed by Teals and Greens, while climate, NDIS, housing and Gaza stayed off the radar. #AUSPOL #Election2025

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Song listing:

1. ‘Good Stuff’, The B-52s.
2. ‘Godless’, The Dandy Warhols.
3. ‘Feels Right’, Biig Piig.
4. ‘Let Me Entertain You’, Robbie Williams.
5. ‘The Hard Road’, Hilltop Hoods.
6. ‘Humiliation’, The National.