Australia news LIVE: Labor adopts Coalition policy as election looms; Leaders get personal in new interviews

Multiple opinion polls show the Albanese government could be on the nose with voters as the election inches closer.

The latest Newspoll published in The Australian newspaper on Monday shows the Coalition has a 51-49 lead over Labor in the two-party preferred stakes.

Some 53 per cent of those surveyed believed the Albanese government did not deserve to be re-elected, while 34 per cent were happy to give it another term, but Albanese still leads as the preferred PM with 45 per cent support to Dutton’s 40 per cent.

Meanwhile, modelling from pollster YouGov projected the Coalition to win 73 seats at the election – putting Dutton in a strong position to form a government.

Responding to the polling on a politics panel on Seven’s Sunrise, Nationals MP Barnaby Joyce said the Coalition would be working hard and letting the Australian people decide.

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“Fortunately for us, the Labor Party, they just have done an atrocious job and then they rub salt into the wounds by telling people that they have fixed it.”

Also on the panel was Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek, who said the election would be close.

“It shows that every vote counts and that is why it is so important that we remind people that Peter Dutton has opposed every single cost of living pressure relief that we have tried to introduce.”

AAP with Josefine Ganko