The budget bottom line would be worse in the first two years of a Dutton Coalition government than under Labor, the party's costings have revealed.

The Coalition is releasing its costings in the final days of the campaign. It's claiming budget deficits will be $10 billion less than under Labor.

The Coalition has revealed its costings and Labor is feeling optimistic about key seats in Melbourne as election night edges closer.  

Erin Patterson's estranged husband tells a court he thought she loved his family in the lead-up to their deaths from eating a poisonous beef Wellington she had cooked.

The head of a Chinese community group that helped organise volunteers for two candidates has furiously denied he is trying to help China's government influence the federal election. 

Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price asserts Opposition Leader Peter Dutton is "absolutely" committed to ending "indoctrination" in schools by teachers, just hours after Mr Dutton said the Coalition had no proposal to change the curriculum.

A YouGov poll suggests Labor's momentum over the Coalition has firmed, with a two-party preferred vote approaching 53 per cent.