Federal Election 2016: Malcolm Turnbull calls July 2 double dissolution poll

The PM officially announces we’re going to the polls on July 2, kicking off a two month election campaign. The Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove has approved Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s request to dissolve both Houses of the Australian Parliament (76 Senate Seats and 150 House of Representatives Seats). 

Malcolm Turnbull has fired the starting gun on a 55-day election campaign, placing jobs, growth and economic management at the heart of his re-election pitch and warning a switch to Labor would “stop our nation’s transition to the new economy dead in its tracks”.