There is now just hours to go before polling booths open across our wide brown land for the dozens of Australians who haven’t yet cast their votes. Until then our expert analysts at The Bug remain hard at work deciphering for our reader the complex issues at play in this election.

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton yesterday threw more political red meat to people already voting for him by dragging the rejected First Nations Voice to Parliament into the federal election campaign.

In the final days of campaigning, Mr Dutton (main picture) raised the prospect of a re-elected Albanese Government legislating the Voice to Parliament that was defeated in an October 2023 referendum aimed at enshrining it in the Australian Constitution.

The attack by Mr Dutton was based on innocuous comments by Foreign Minister Penny Wong who was reported as saying that an indigenous Voice would eventually be accepted by the Australian community just as same-sex marriage was approved by a national postal survey that led to it being written into law.

The new attack on Labor over a supposed resurrected Voice will be backed by a series of advertisements hastily produced for the Liberal Party and due to start appearing today in print media across the nation.

A senior Liberal Party campaign source conceded that the new attack may be too little too late.

“We hope our ads work in the last few days of this campaign,” the source said. “The various print media ads are all aimed at letting Australians know the dangers of the Voice.

“Some are illustrated with various, and I must say very graphic, stills from the massacre scene in the 1970s Aussie film The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith. (below)

“I just hope they work. Frankly I’m a bit worried because the new ads are a lot more subtle than any of the ads we ran in the Voice referendum campaign.

“Unfortunately we’ve also missed the opportunity to run ads in electronic media because of the pre-poll blackout, and we have such a big stock of scary music as well as moody, threatening images that would have suited the ads so well,” the source said.

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The Liberal Party’s last-minute advertising push to alert voters to what is says is a plan to legislate an indigenous Voice to Parliament has already drawn criticism from Oboe of the Obese president, Clive Palmer. (below)

“It’s outrageous that the Liberal Party uses its financial muscle to snare prime full-page advertising space in papers like The Daily Telegraph in Sydney,” Mr Palmer said. (below)

“I’m paying good money to News Crap Australia for full-page ads promoting the next prime minister of Australia, umm… whatshername, and I’ve been told in no uncertain terms that the front page is not for sale.

“Yet they sell it to the Liberal Party. It’s outrageous. Nobody should be able to buy votes through blanket advertising like that.

“I’m also facing difficulties in sourcing ad space in News Crap papers in the last days of this election campaign because the Liberals have bought up so much space in The Australian and in Murdoch’s metro turdbloids.

“I mean, just look at the Liberal Party ads that are running in those papers today, even on inside news pages dedicated to the election coverage,” Mr Palmer added. (below)

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Now to the pollsters. The final RedBridgepoll lobbed overnight giving Labor a 53/47 two-party lead. We think maybe a final pushpoll from Newspoll and one from YouGov are the only ones left out in the field.

All this means that the average of the polls we are now monitoring is now 52.8/47.2 two-party preferred in Labor’s favour.

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And as for the bookies …. the first figures below are from around 9.35 pm last night (Wednesday) with the results from roughly 24 hours earlier in brackets.

Sportsbet: Labor $1.12 ($1.13); Coalition $6.70 ($5.80)
Ladbrokes: Labor $1.10 ($1.16); Coalition $6.50 ($5.50)
TAB: Labor $1.11 ($1.15); Coalition $6.50 ($5.50)
bet365: Labor $1.11 ($1.16) Coalition $5.00 ($7.00).
Neds: Labor $1.10 ($1.16); Coalition $6.50 ($5.00).

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Today’s winner is Donald Trump’s favourite suppository Andrew Clennell who, quite understandably, will be disappointed if his next pay packet from the Murdochs doesn’t include a nice little bonus. We’re told Clennell didn’t even blush at the National Press Club when he mistook Anthony Albanese for Peter Dutton.

BREAKING OVERNIGHT: The online bookies are expected to blow out the LNP’s chances to billyO over the coming hours after news broke that the Opposition had forgotten to hire all those motorbikes with their Labor’s Death Tax Coming! messaging.

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