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Dutton will launch a blitz of the teal-held inner-city seats he has shunned to date and ramp up his tempo of travel around the country in a final week rush to convince undecided voters to revolt against Albanese.

The opposition leader’s team is insisting he can still win in the face of diminishing public expectations of an upset victory, with senior party sources unable to speak on the record confirming Dutton will travel to the Sydney seat of Mackellar, held by independent Sophie Scamps, after a Sunday morning rally in the safe Labor seat of Hawke in outer-suburban Melbourne.

In the final days before the election next Saturday, Dutton is due to visit the Melbourne electorates of Goldstein and Kooyong, two other teal-held seats the party desperately needs to win back if it is to make up the numbers to regain majority government. So far in this campaign, Dutton has only visited one teal seat, Curtin in Perth, and met Goldstein candidate Tim Wilson outside his electorate.

The same party sources, unable to speak publicly about Dutton’s diary, said Dutton would aim to travel to 28 seats between Sunday and next Saturday when the election would be held.

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is in Sydney this morning after he spent yesterday in Melbourne and then Launceston when he spoke to volunteers. He told them he would work tirelessly until election day to drive up the Labor vote.

“So the next week, I’d ask you to leave absolutely nothing in the tank,” Albanese said. “I assure you that’s what I’ll be doing.”

Meanwhile, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton is in Melbourne after he held a roundtable yesterday in Darwin. He joined Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro, Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, Liberal candidate for Solomon Lisa Bayliss, and about 20 locals in a small room in the Karama Shopping Plaza.

The opposition leader had also visited Cairns yesterday.