Jim Chalmers is out and about early while the Labor campaign gets ready to leave WA (it has been there since Friday).

Chalmers tells the ABC:

I think this election is going to be incredibly close. I think it will tighten up between now and election day. We’ve still got a few weeks until Australians will be asked to make a really important decision. And the choice that we’re asking Australians to make is between stability and responsibility from Labor in an uncertain world, or cuts and chaos under Peter Dutton and the Coalition. I think what we saw in the launches yesterday was that really important choice laid bare.

Labor helping with the cost of living, higher wages, lower taxes, making our economy more resilient amidst all of this global economic volatility, versus Peter Dutton and the Coalition, who are all about lower wages, higher taxes, no ongoing help with the cost of living, and these secret cuts to pay for their nuclear reactors.

So that’s what the choice will be between now and May 3. We are not complacent about the outcome. We take no outcome for granted. We think it’s going to be very close.