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We’re following the prime minister as he campaigns in Launceston, Tasmania, where he’s cooked sausages for Labor supporters.

Shadow Treasurer Angus Taylor says Labor has broken “every promise” it made on tax before the last election, warning the prime minister cannot be trusted.

In a press release today, Taylor listed various promises he said Labor had broken, adding Albanese’s promised income tax cuts were a “con job”.

“Commitments in today’s Financial Review from the prime minister that he won’t increase taxes on super, negative gearing, or the family home should be reported to Scamwatch,” he said.

“Labor and Anthony Albanese promised on more than 100 occasions they would not change the stage 3 tax cuts – they did. [They] promised there would be no changes to super – they are taxing it. Labor and Anthony Albanese promised no changes to negative gearing and capital gains tax – the treasurer is modelling them.”

Earlier today, Albanese said he would continue to give the same answer on changes to negative gearing and capital gains tax, saying they were not on the table. “If you ask me tomorrow, we’ll get the same answer,” he said.

Albanese has delivered a rallying cry to Labor volunteers in Launceston, telling them he would work tirelessly until election day to drive up the Labor vote.

“So the next week, I’d ask you to leave absolutely nothing in the tank,” Albanese said. “I assure you that’s what I’ll be doing.

This is the second state I’ve been in today. One more to go, and we’ll keep going hard all the way up to six o’clock on Saturday because there’s a lot at stake for the country and its future, and I’m so confident.

I’m so proud of the amazing Labor team we have in Canberra.”

The Albanese campaign has arrived in sunny Launceston for a brief campaign stop in the marginal seat of Bass, held by Liberal MP Bridget Archer.

Anthony Albanese is cooking some sausages in a park in Launceston to provide sustenance for Labor volunteers campaigning for the party’s candidate for Bass Jess Teesdale.

The Greens have announced a plan to lower the retirement age from 67 to 65 and increase the age pension above the poverty line.

Greens leader Adam Bandt, who made the announcement in the party’s target seat of Richmond in northern NSW, said lowering the pension age would – on average – boost the average amount received by those affected by $18,000 a year. That includes the currently 54,000 JobSeeker recipients aged over 65 who would move onto the age pension.

“In a wealthy country like ours, no one should retire into poverty,” he said. “The Greens will fight for the right to retire earlier at 65, with an income that will actually pay the bills and support older Australians to enjoy the retirement they deserve.”

Bandt said the commitment would largely benefit older women who are more likely than men to face poverty in old age.

With just a week until polling day, more than half of Australians can’t name a policy from either major party they believe will improve their lives.

Despite the campaign frenzy, 62 per cent of their audience can’t think of a policy they believe would improve their lot, polling commissioned by AAP and modelled by YouGov reveals.

Of the 38 per cent of survey recipients who could name a life-improving policy, most nominated Medicare and bulk-billing, followed by energy relief and general cost-of-living measures.

YouGov director of public data Paul Smith said Labor-led promises were getting more traction than the coalition’s offerings.

“The public perceived one campaign to be doing satisfactorily and one to be doing very badly,” he told AAP. “And they’re having to choose between them.”

Australia is in a Truman Show election campaign. Both major parties are carefully, wilfully myopic. They direct our attention to details of domestic affairs as if Australia can carry on undisturbed. It’s an artificial reality in a contained environment.

The leaders occasionally acknowledge the larger world outside. Like the directors of The Truman Show, they can’t conceal that there is a reality beyond the sound stage of Truman Burbank’s idyllic village, but they prefer to avoid the fact that a historic upheaval is under way.

One consequence is that many of the programs and promises of the campaign will be unaffordable or irrelevant once the ads stop and the corflutes are packed away.

Read more here.

We’re on the campaign trail with the prime minister, who has been campaigning in Wheelers Hill this morning. Here are some pictures.