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Over the next six weeks, Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Labor leader Anthony Albanese will dash around the country, trying to secure as many precious votes as they can.

It's been a revolving door of prime ministers over the past decade but a 2022 win for Scott Morrison will make him the first successive victor since 2004.

Australian voters will go to the polls on May 21.

Newcastle Herald readers have their say

Section 44 citizenship concerns have forced Labor's candidate in the federal seat of Hughes in Sydney to withdraw.

Local teacher Peter Tsambalas was preselected unopposed by ALP branch members in January to contest south Sydney seat

Awaiting the official start of the 2022 campaign, published polls show Labor is comfortably ahead of the government. Pundits agree this year’s election is Albanese’s to lose, but predictions range along a spectrum from a Labor landslide to a narrow win, to a finely balanced hung parliament.

There's been a lot of soul-searching after opinion polls failed to predict Scott Morrison's 2019 win, but the big question remains: Will the polls be closer to the mark this time around?