Victoria's key incumbents cast their votes
Victoria's polling booths are in full swing, with key incumbents casting their votes supported by loved ones and taking time out for a taste of democracy sausage.
Bill Shorten cast his ballot at Moonee Ponds West Primary School in the electorate of Maribyrnong on Saturday morning along with wife Chloe, before tucking into a sausage sandwich.
In a nod to his partner, Mr Shorten braved the morning wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with: "Vote 1: Chloe Shorten's Husband".
Meanwhile, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg arrived at the Balwyn North Primary School to anti Adani mine protesters.
He cast his vote alongside wife Amie and children Gemma and Blake before admitting to reporters the results for Kooyong could be tight.
Although Mr Frydenberg has an almost 13 per cent margin, he is being fiercely contested by human rights lawyer and Greens candidate Julian Burnside and Liberal-turned-independent Oliver Yates.
Mr Burnside is running on a climate change agenda, and thinks it's the issue that could wrestle the long-held conservative seat away from Mr Frydenberg.
And in the electorate of Chisholm, there have been reports of seemingly misleading how-to-vote posters written in Mandarin, printed in the same colour and font as the Australian Electoral Commission, instructing voters to list the Liberal party first.
The Victorian electorate of Deakin has also been subjected to concerns over campaign advertising, with Labor candidate Shireen Morris tweeting images of her posters defaced to depict her wearing a niqab.
"Using Islamophobia to try a secure votes... disgraceful," she said.
Victorian voters are poised to decide the 2019 election, with the state just months ago swinging heavily in Labor's favour.
Several conservative seats across the state are under attack from Labor, Greens and independents, trying to capitalise on lingering displeasure over the rolling of Malcolm Turnbull.
In Higgins - the seat that's previously been held by prime ministers Harold Holt and John Gorton, as well as former treasurer Peter Costello - the Liberals are pinning their hopes on former state election candidate Katie Allen to take over from retiring Kelly O'Dwyer.
Southwest of Melbourne lies the coalition's most marginal seat, Corangamite, taking in Greater Geelong and held by Sarah Henderson by just 0.03 per cent after a redistribution made it notionally Labor.
On Victoria's Mornington Peninsula, another Liberal-turned-independent, Julia Banks, is going after Health Minister Greg Hunt, who holds the seat of Flinders on a margin of about seven per cent.
Also, the Melbourne electorate of Cooper is due to choose its first MP since changing its name from Batman.
Labor member Ged Kearney has held the seat since a 2018 by-election, with climate change again seen to be a key issue.
