Australians will head to the polls on 3 May after the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, fired the starter’s gun on the federal election campaign. Albanese said the election was ‘a choice between Labor’s plan to keep building or [opposition leader] Peter Dutton’s promise to cut’. Albanese said the economy is now turning the corner and the government has chosen to face global challenges ‘the Australian way – helping people under cost-of-living pressure while building for the future’