The election campaign has been bumping along for weeks now and it's a much closer race than it was at the start.

At first it looked like Bill Shorten's race to lose, but this week's Newspoll has Labor only slightly ahead.

The major parties are running very different campaigns, so the big question is which one's working on voters?

And could this result change the way Australian politicians try to win elections in the future?

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Annabel Crabb, political journalist, ABC

Dr Andy Marks, political scientist, Assistant Vice Chancellor, Western Sydney University