Afternoon Headlines: PM Anthony Albanese hits back over Labor candidate’s father’s comments, YOUGOV poll shows Labor is set to win and heated text exchange in Mushroom trial

Deep Dive: The latest polls are predicting the Coalition is set to suffer its worst election defeat in almost 80 years this weekend and the blame game has already started.

In this episode of The Briefing Natarsha Belling is joined by Tom McIlroy, the chief political correspondent for Guardian Australia, who unpacks what has gone so horribly wrong for Peter Dutton and why trying to be like Donald Trump was a fatal error. 

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