Shorten won't rule out second election in event of hung parliament

Opposition Leader Bill Shorten is currently in Mackay, and is leaving the door open to a second election if the campaign ends in a hung parliament. ABC's Eliza Borrello is travelling with him.



It's fair to say Mr Shorten's treating the 55 day election campaign as a marathon it is, not a sprint. But today he's indicated he's prepared to do it all again if the result on the second of July is tied - rather than do a deal to form government with the Greens. He said:

I'm not going to pre-judge what the Australian people will do. The only way you can have a second election is if there's a not a clear outcome in the first election.

The Opposition Leader also continued his attack on the Government's superannuation plan, which he labelled "dangerous".

This Government is playing with fire. They have got grave, grave questions to answer about the retrospective potential of the changes they're making.



This Government is being attacked from the right, it's being attacked by the whole financial planning industry, the superannuants of Australia I think are really, really deeply angry to their back teeth that yet again this Government has said one thing and is doing another.

The Government this morning stood by the changes , saying they would only hit the "very wealthiest" of Australians.