The Australian national election polling booths have now closed 2 July
– PM Malcolm Turnbull and opposition Labour Party leader Bill Shorten both say they are confident of a victory but concede the result could be tight
Malcolm Turnbull ,the leader of Australia’s conservative Liberal
Party-led Coalition dissolved both houses of parliament in May in a bid
to oust independents in the upper house Senate who had
blocked his agenda, including company tax cuts.