Defence minister Richard Marles says he is not following the polls, because it’s “bad for your mental health”.

He told ABC:

We don’t follow opinion polls by the day. It is not good for your mental health if you are in politics. We focus on what our job is, which is to govern the country. We are not looking at that. This is a close election, everyone knows we are coming from behind. That is the way in which we’re proceeding here.