Rival Australian party leaders each claim underdog status ahead of general elections

This is a crisis that took decades to create, and it’s going to take decades to fix, but we do need someone to step up and take the first steps,

Maiy Azize, the national spokesperson for the pressure group Everybody’s Home, told Al Jazeera

I want to make sure that we can get our country back on track, that we can manage our economy well and only a Liberal government can do that,

Dutton said

We are the underdog and I think a lot of people will be expressing a real protest vote at this election as well because the prime minister believes he’s won this election,

Dutton said last week

There’s a lot of undecided voters. We have a mountain to climb. No one’s been re-elected since 2004,

Albanese told reporters on Friday

We don’t need to copy America or anywhere else. We need the Australian way,

Albanese said on Friday

If we manage the economy well, we can bring inflation down and make sure that we help families with the cost-of-living crisis,

he added