Scott Morrison has been accused of “playing games” and challenged to call the election immediately.
Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese said “the clock’s ticking” for the Prime Minister and questioned his police platform in the upcoming election.
Mr Albanese spoke to reporters at Leichhardt in Sydney on Saturday and said he expected to the election to be called this weekend.
He said the Prime Minister was “treading water” and making people wait.
“Either the election will be called today or the election will be called tomorrow morning, is highly likely,” Mr Albanese told reporters.
“I think it has been a bit of a game, frankly, the prime minister last year gave up on governing and said he was campaigning.”
Mr Albanese said Labor was coming into the election as an underdog and had a “mountain to climb”.
“Labor has only won government three times from opposition since the Second World War, so we have a mountain to climb.”
He said the government was going into this election as the favourite and Mr Morrison had a considerable advantage.
“Governments win and get re-elected much more often than government changes hands in this country,” Mr Albanese said.
He said the Australian public knew what he stood for and argued the Prime Minister had no real agenda or policy platform.
“There’s no policy that he’s put in place and he’s the government,” he said.
“The clock’s ticking, nothing’s happened … so this time he is going into an election where he is just talking about me.”
The Labor leader said if his party was elected there would be a policy for national reconstruction fund to create new businesses, cheaper childcare and would implement recommendations from the Aged Care Royal Commission.
There would also be policies for cleaner energy, he said.
