Labor's Anthony Albanese and the Coalition's Peter Dutton. Photo: RNZ / AFP
With one day to go of campaigning in the Australian election focus is shifting to how minor parties and independents candidates could affect the result.
While polls show Labor is expected win, it may yet require the support of independent MPs to form an outright majority in Parliament.
The Coalition meanwhile will be hoping for a late boost from Pauline Hansen's One Nation after it encouraged voters to rank the Coalition as second preference in some close run seats.
It comes as some polls show support for One Nation increasing this election to around 7.5 percent.
Under Australia's preferential system for the House of Representatives, voters rank their preferred candidates in an electorate. If nobody wins an outright majority, the bottom candidate is eliminated and their preferences are reallocated until some has over 50 percent of the vote.
One Nation's increasing support isn't likely to be enough to see it win electorate seats in House of Representatives with determines the government.
However could see it secure more seats in the upper house or Senate, with leader Pauline Hansen's daughter running a strong campaign for Senate in Tasmania.
Government legislation must pass through the Senate to become law. During the last term Anthony Albanese relied on cross bench MPs to get laws passed.
Meanwhile both Labor's Anthony Albanese and the Coalition's Peter Dutton will spend the last full day of campaigning criss-crossing the country visiting key marginal seats.
