This is where we'll leave our live coverage of federal election campaign for today. Thanks for joining us! 

We're well and truly on the home stretch now with only three more days until election day on May 3.

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Unlike most of the world’s democracies, Australia uses preferential voting. 

BTN finds out more about what that is, how it works and why some say it helps to keep more Australians happy with their leaders.

The Greens candidate for Macnamara, Sonya Semmens has stepped up to talk says the reason she's running for federal parliament is because of the "inequality crisis".

Macnamara is another Labor held seat the Greens thinks it can win off the government this election.

Semmens says the dream of home ownership for a whole generation is "dying".

"We can't keep voting for the same two parties, expecting a different result if you want change," she says.

Greens senator Steph Hodgins-May wraps up the campaign launch, saying: "Let's keep Peter Dutton out, let's get Labor to act".

Greens candidate for Wills Samantha Ratnam has stepped up to talk.

She says she's met people in the electorate she's contesting that can't afford going to the dentist and are struggling under the cost of living crisis.

She's also pointed to the war in Gaza being a sticking point for some people she's met.

"This is our time. So many people need us to win more seats across this country because they need politics to change for their lives to be better, for the lives of their future generations to be better," she says.

The Greens campaign launch has started in the Melbourne seat of Wills, which the party is looking to snatch off Labor's Peter Khalil.

Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi has introduced party leader Adam Bandt, saying the party wants to "smash the two party system quo" this election.

Bandt says that whatever happens this election, the party will introduce a bill to parliament to establish a First Nations truth and justice commission. 

He says the Greens want to ensure dental is included into Medicare and make childcare free.

"This weekend, a vote for the Greens will keep Peter Dutton out and get Labor to act by getting dental into Medicare for everyone, by making sure that childcare is free, by wiping student debt and by making big corporations pay their fair share of tax," he says.

There's a lot of questions about whether this election will produce a hung parliament, and if the major parties would have to rely on the support of minor parties, like the Greens, to govern.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has repeatedly said Labor will not enter a deal with the Greens, like it did under the Julia Gillard-led minority government.

But if the Greens do achieve their goal of wielding the balance of power in the next parliament, what would they prioritise?

My colleague Samantha Dick takes a look at the Greens' key objectives ahead of the party's campaign launch in Melbourne.

Few teenage girls have waited by the phone for a boy to call more than Anthony Albanese has waited for the US President.

For weeks, Albanese has been plagued with questions about why he has been unable to get Donald Trump on the phone to try to secure a carve-out on tariffs.

Recently, he went so far as to suggest Donald Trump doesn't even have a phone which the Coalition has seized on.

But now, right when the campaign is coming to an end, Trump has declared "they are calling and I will be talking to him, yes".

It's very unclear who exactly Trump is referring to, or what the nature of the call will be. 

But regardless, rather than a long distance call, Albanese is trying to create a long bit of distance from Trump this close to the election.

Read more in the link below.

While campaign plans remain carefully guarded there was a little surprise when the media bus drove into the BP Truck Stop in Scoresby, Melbourne.

A journalist on the bus joked: "Is there a policy related to petrol that I should be aware of?"

That policy is the Coalition's pledge to cut the fuel excise by 25 cents a litre for one year, at a cost of $6 billion.

It's mentioned dozens of times in the opposition leader's press conferences and today he's spruiking it in the Labor held seat of Aston.

Dutton was joined by Liberal candidate Manny Cicchiello.

Patricia Karvelas has asked Bridget Mackenzie whether she thinks One Nation is Islamophobic.

"I... I don't know. That is a question you need to ask Pauline Hanson," Mackenzie says.

Karvelas asks how Mackenzie doesn't think One Nation is racist after leader Pauline Hanson walked into the Senate wearing a burqa in 2018.

"I'm very, very comfortable with our preferencing, we are focused on delivering for rural and regional Australia," she says.

Asked whether Mackenzie thought it was offensive for Pauline Hanson to walk into the Senate with a burqa, she says she couldn't comment. 

"I can't comment, I guess, PK, on what people choose to wear. We live in a free country. I don't agree with what everyone chooses to wear."

"People can wear what they like, we're in a free country the last time I checked."

That's where we'll leave our coverage of Afternoon Briefing for today.