(3 May 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
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Sydney, Australia – 3 May 2025
1. Various of Bondi Beach and people outside polling station
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Stefano Redl, voter:
"Foreign policy."
3. Various of polling station before opening
4. Owners with dogs outside polling station
5. Line of people outside polling station
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Andrew Ortish, voter:
"I think getting the climate change agenda back on track."
7. Various of polling station before opening
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Melissa Budiarto, voter:
"I think the main issue for me would be the cost of living crisis, just trying to make sure that the day-to-day things are still affordable."
9. Polling station before opening
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Alice (last name unavailable), voter:
"Probably as a young working professional, housing affordability."
11. Instructions on how to vote
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Remo Giuffre, voter:
"For me it’s social services, community support, the environment, cost of living. I’ve got a whole bunch of different things."
13. Voter Stefano Redl lining up
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Stefano Redl, voter:
"I’m hoping that there’s going to be a change but it will be a good change."
15. Voter Andrew Ortisch with his dogs
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Andrew Ortish, voter:
"I’m hoping for some sensible, grown up, government."
17. Various of people in polling station, registering and casting votes
18. Voter Melissa Budiarto in line outside
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Melissa Budiarto, voter:
"I’m hoping for a government that is fair and actually follows through on what they promise."
20. Various of people casting votes
21. Various of Ortisch in polling station with dogs
22. Pan from outside to inside of polling station
23. SOUNDBITE (English) Alice (last name unavailable), voter:
"For Australia I just would love to see policy that’s really focused on long term policy rather than short term gains."
24. Redl inside polling station
25. Electoral officials at desk
26. Various of line outside polling station
27. SOUNDBITE (English) Remo Giuffre, voter:
"I’m kind of a bit of a globalist and I’m hoping that we can return to a more free trade situation and less isolationism and nationalism."
28. People leaving polling station
29. Various of sausage sizzle outside polling station
30. Polling station, candidate posters and Bondi Beach
STORYLINE:
Polls opened on Saturday morning for Australia’s general election, with high costs of living and a shortage of housing presenting as key issues for voters.
Voting in eastern Australia will continue from 8 a.m. (22:00 GMT Friday) until 6 p.m. (08:00 GMT Saturday). The polls open and close two hours later on the West Coast.
In Sydney, voters started lining up outside one of Bondi Beach’s polling stations at 7:30 a.m. (21:30 GMT Friday) with various issues on their mind.
For Stefano Redl, this election was all about foreign policy. Melissa Budiarto said that her main issue was "the cost of living crisis, just trying to make sure that the day-to-day things are still affordable."
Remo Giuffre said that he was hoping for the "return to a more free trade situation and less isolationism and nationalism."
Authorities said 8.6 million ballots from Australia’s 18.1 million registered voters had already been cast, but not counted, before Saturday since early and postal voting began on April 22.
Australia is among the few countries where voting is compulsory, a system that leans toward creating centrist governments.
At the last election in 2022, 90% of eligible voters cast ballots.
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