Albanese to call May 3 federal election on Friday morning
www.abc.net.au
The prime minister is poised to call the election on Friday, to be held on May 3.

In short:

The federal election will be called tomorrow for May 3, the ABC has confirmed.

It triggers a five-week campaign to convince voters whether Labor under Anthony Albanese or the Coalition under Peter Dutton is most fit to lead the country.

What’s next?

The prime minister will head to government house tomorrow morning to call the election.

  • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
    5·
    5 days ago

    Luckily, splintering is generally-speaking not an issue, because of how our voting system works.

    Technically

    Technically speaking, if you splintered so much that the Greens fell behind on 1st preference votes, they could be eliminated early. But in that case it would probably have to be because a different left-wing environment-focused party (maybe AJP) did better than them, and Greens votes would probably go there after elimination.