The coalition and the opposition are leaving nothing to chance on the final day of the federal election campaign, as a new poll shows Labor could win government.
But the prime minister says he is more interested in the unemployment rate, which on Thursday was confirmed at 3.9 per cent, than the polls.
"Polls don't determine elections and neither do politicians and neither do journalists," he told ABC News Breakfast on Friday.
"Australians do, the many quiet ones out there working hard every day to ensure that they can get through each and every day's challenges."
Yet deputy Labor leader Richard Marles says the unemployment rate is not reassuring for many Australians as wages had increased at less than half the rate of inflation.
"The unemployment figure, that is cold comfort for the millions of Australians who this week received news of the biggest real wage cut in more than 20 years," he told the Nine Network.
Meanwhile, Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese says he has given Labor's election chances everything he has and will keep going until voting closes at 6pm on Saturday.
If elected he would lead the most experienced incoming Labor team since federation, he said.
"We have put out exactly what we will do in each area during this campaign and the difference between us and the government is that we have a plan for the future," he told ABC radio on Friday.
Thursday was the biggest single day of pre-polling in Australia's history with 743,000, a record the Australian Electoral Commission expects to be broken on Friday.
Mr Morrison will begin day 40 of the campaign from the west targeting seats in Perth while Mr Albanese started in Sydney before a three-state blitz of marginal seats held by the coalition.
A fresh opinion poll shows the race has tightened in the final week, with the coalition edging higher, confirming a trend seen in other vote trackers in previous days.
Labor has a narrow primary vote lead over the government at 36 per cent to 35 per cent, excluding undecided voters, according to the Ipsos poll published in The Australian Financial Review on Friday.
On a two-party preferred basis, Labor is ahead 53 per cent to 47 per cent, after the allocation of preferences based on the last election in 2019.
Mr Albanese is tracking at 42 per cent for preferred prime minister against 39 per cent for Mr Morrison.
The opposition leader still believes a Labor success at the ballot box is a mountain to climb.
"I'm contemplating a majority Labour government on Saturday ... and that is my only consideration," he told ABC radio.
"Labor has only won government three times from opposition since the Second World War and we knew that this election was going to be close."
Mr Albanese said there would be savings to the budget bottom line following a Treasury audit of "waste and rorts" under the Morrison government.
Meanwhile, the prime minister will use the final day of the campaign to spruik the government's economic record.
Mr Morrison is still confident he can win and is looking forward to Saturday.
"I'm looking forward to going forward beyond (Saturday) because we've all worked so hard in the country to come through this pandemic stronger than almost every other advanced economy in the world," he told Sydney radio 2GB on Friday.
Mr Morrison said the low jobless rate was a sign the government's economic plan was working.
More than seven million people have either voted early or applied for a postal vote.
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