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Australians go to the polls on Saturday, with the Labor party under Anthony Albanese hoping to oust Scott Morrison’s Coalition government and end nine years of conservative rule. Australian elections always have their own vocabulary and concepts sometimes baffling to outsiders – nowhere else does the word corflute appear so frequently, including this year in an extremely Australian “stoush” over dobbing people in about corflutes. The 2022 campaign has added some fresh causes of potential confusion to the traditional recipe. Here are the main things you need to know.
