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CANBERRA - Prime Minister John Howard will today make a last-minute appeal for re-election in a televised address to the National Press Club.
Labor leader Kevin Rudd faced a grilling from the national media in Canberra yesterday, and today it is Mr Howard's turn.
With just two days before the federal election, both leaders have sharpened their pitch to voters.
Mr Rudd, who starts his day in Brisbane after flying in last night, pledged to shift Australia up a gear if elected, and nominated climate change, education and health as priorities for his first year in office.
The prime minister said growing the economy and pushing unemployment lower was his number one priority.
But he also promised to focus on maintaining national security, implementing election promises, tackling climate change and working on Aboriginal reconciliation.
Mr Howard is also targeting wavering voters, telling them life will change for the worse under a Labor government.
"There is an enormous risk if the government does change on Saturday, the things we have taken for granted will not go on," he told an address to business leaders in Sydney.
- AAP
