Anthony Albanese, the center-left frontrunner for Australia’s next prime minister, predicted a “close” election result as he campaigned across the country to end a decade of conservative rule.

Albanese concluded his four-state campaign by saying Australians “want some honesty in politics” and were “over” Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s soundbites.

More than 17 million Australians have registered to vote in an election that will determine who controls the House of Representatives and the Senate, as well as whether Morrison will serve another three years in the prime minister’s “Lodge.”

Two final polls put Labor six points ahead of Morrison’s Liberal-led coalition, but with the race narrowing and neither party assured of an outright victory.

More than seven million people have already cast early or postal ballots, according to the Australian Electoral Commission.

Albanese said a Labor victory would bring “transformative” environmental policy that would “end the climate wars” that have made Australia a global laggard in tackling carbon emissions.

Speaking in Adelaide, Albanese welled up as he reflected on his personal journey — from the son of a single mum living in Sydney public housing to the threshold of the highest office in the land.

“It says a lot about this country,” he said, voice cracking with emotion. “That someone from those beginnings… can stand before you today, hoping to be elected prime minister of this country tomorrow.”

If elected, Albanese notes he would be the first Australian with a non-Anglo or Celtic surname to be prime minister.

But he is up against a tough campaigner in incumbent Morrison, who defied the polls three years ago in what he termed a “miracle” election.

Speaking in Western Australia, Morrison admitted his compatriots go into election day “fatigued and tired” having endured three years of bushfires, droughts, floods, and the pandemic.

“I understand that frustration,” he said while pounding out the same message that defied the odds last time: Labor cannot be trusted on the economy.

Morrison has characterized Albanese as a “loose unit” because of his high-profile gaffes, notably forgetting the national jobless rate when quizzed by reporters.

“This is the sort of stuff that prime ministers need to know,” Morrison said in an interview Friday as he campaigned in Western Australia.

“We have seen that he is not up to the job and it’s bigger than him.”

Morrison boasted of new data showing Australia’s unemployment rate fell to a 48-year low of 3.9 percent in April as an “extraordinary achievement” that showed his plan was working.

Both sides are trying to woo voters fretting about the rising cost of living, with annual inflation shooting up to 5.1 percent and wages failing to keep up in real terms.

In a country scarred by ever-fiercer natural disasters, Labor is promising to do more to help the environment.

Morrison has resisted calls to cut carbon emissions faster by 2030 and supports mining and burning coal into the distant future to boost the economy.

In wealthy suburban areas, many voters are being wooed by a band of more than 20 independent candidates, mostly women, offering conservative policies coupled with strong action on climate change.

Albanese has also promised strong action on corruption — after Morrison failed to deliver a promised federal anti-graft watchdog.

He has branded Morrison’s administration the “least open, least fair dinkum government in Australian political history”.

In the final days before the vote, Morrison’s economic warnings appear to have whittled down the polling lead enjoyed by Labor.

But all surveys still show Morrison’s coalition lagging.

An Ipsos poll released late Thursday and a YouGov/Newspoll released Friday gave Labor a 53-47 percent lead over the coalition on a two-party preferred basis.

Registered voters are required by law to cast a ballot to avoid an Aus$20 (US$14) fine.

But in the first Australian federal vote since Covid-19 spread across the world, election officials rushed through a last-minute change in the rules to allow more infected people to cast a vote by telephone.

Besides the economy, the six-week election campaign has focused heavily on trust.

Morrison’s honesty has been questioned by his own allies and even French President Emmanuel Macron, who felt deceived by Australia’s decision to abandon a lucrative French submarine contract.

Morrison has admitted he can be a “bulldozer”, saying: “I know there are things that are going to have to change with the way I do things.”

Albanese, in turn, has been criticized for a stumbling performance when questioned on the details of policy by reporters.

The election campaign has also delivered lighter moments.

Morrison collided with a young boy during a friendly children’s football game in Tasmania three days before the election, sending both to the ground.

The following day, Stuart Robert, Australia’s employment minister, appeared to deflect blame from the prime minister: “There was a high five afterward, so it was just an error from both of them,” he said.