Winning middle Australia: road map for a Labor victory may lie in Deakin

Liberal MP Michael Sukkar has a 6.4% buffer, but Labor’s Shireen Morris has been door-knocking for months in an effort to win over suburban Melbourne

Three hours after the federal election was called, Bill Shorten addressed the national media from the backyard of a house in Mitcham in the dead centre of the almost-marginal electorate of Deakin in eastern Melbourne.

It seemed an underwhelming place to launch a campaign that, if the polls hold true, could put Shorten in the Lodge. That, Shorten said, was the point.

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