I'm going to wrap this campaign blog for now - but like last night, I'll be back with you about 7.30pm for some second screen madness on Kitchen Cabinet. Annabel Crabb has the Labor leader Kevin Rudd on her show on ABC1 this evening. I'm going to run a short live blog to give politics tragics a place to hang out.

Before I do the summary, I want to thank the readers of Politics Live throughout the campaign. You have been outstanding. My colleague Paul Owen will be in the control tower tomorrow for the final day of the election 2013. I need to write an essay, and prepare for our election night coverage, which of course, will be tops.

Today, Thursday.

Kevin Rudd made his final address to the National Press Club ahead of Saturday. The focus was jobs - and if you don't know what Tony Abbott is on about, don't vote for him.

There was a counterpoint between the future and the past: Labor was the party of plucky iconoclasts and futurists; the Coalition was about Upstairs Downstairs and Downton Abbey and gazing in the rear view mirror.

Tony Abbott continued to zip around the country. (Yes, he can zip too, It's not copyrighted.)

His treasury duo, Joe Hockey and Andrew Robb, meanwhile released the Coalition's costings - another $9bn worth of cuts - mainly from slowing the growth in foreign aid spending. More than $4bn in aid money will be redirected to roads in Melbourne and elsewhere.

The total of Coalition cuts unveiled by Hockey and Robb was $43bn. There was no detail about assumptions or forecasts, simply a list of spending and savings measures. Journalists were given the documents fifteen minutes before the Melbourne press conference - if they were in Melbourne, that is.

Three of the major policies - direct action, the alternative NBN, and the border protection policy, did not go to the Parliamentary Budget Office. And obviously this announcement came after the advertising blackout, and just 48 hours from the poll.

The Coalition's costings announcement contained an assumption that "stopping the boats" would deliver more than $1bn to the budget; and the scrapping of the carbon tax would contribute more than $1bn in a growth dividend.

Two other big savings measures was another efficiency dividend from the Australian Public Service; and a rephasing of Murray Darling money.

Labor said the costings confirmed the Coalition was hiding key things from the public; and the Greens were outraged that Tony Abbott was funding roads before poor people.

That was the day, more of less.

Have a great evening. If you are inclined, see you a little later on.