'Change the nation forever': Bill Shorten invokes Whitlam in final push before election day auspol | CanberraCamper
In 1972, Mr Whitlam gave a famous speech at the start of the election campaign that saw him defeat the Coalition for the first time in 23 years.
At the Blacktown Civic Centre, Mr Whitlam had pitched his campaign as "a choice between the past and the future", while setting out policies such as free university education and universal healthcare. Mr Whitlam criticised "instability" in the Coalition ranks, which Mr Shorten has also done during the 2019 campaign.
The seat, which has a high number of Chinese and Korean voters, was held by retiring Liberal MP and Malcolm Turnbull supporter Craig Laundy. Political watchers expect the final days of the campaign to be intense, as many voters tune in for the first time. Dr Kevin Brianton, a politics and public relations lecturer at La Trobe University, said after a lacklustre campaign, during which many voters had been disengaged, people would now be paying attention as they came to vote.
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