'Mediscare' campaign
Listeners are dipping in and out of this campaign—engaged by policy, but not at all interested in hearing sloganeering or 'on message' interviews.
They are hating what they perceive to be waffle and remain cynical about promises and claims.
This week I was interested to gauge how the audience would respond to comments made by the president of the AMA, Michael Gannon—who was face to face in the studio—that the federal government did not appear to have a privatisation agenda for Medicare.
It was an interesting viewpoint, given the AMA has at different times been a vocal critic of Coalition health policies.
He chose his words carefully and stopped short of saying Bill Shorten was conducting a 'scare campaign', but the audience seemed not to believe him or the many denials from the prime minister.
If Mr Shorten is engaging in a Mediscare campaign, our audience seem to be urging him on.
National Broadband Network
While we may think that people are disengaged and bored with this long campaign, there's huge engagement from our listeners when we talk about the topics they feel politicians should be addressing.
Across the station, no matter which show brings it up, dead-set the one that gets people fired up is the NBN.
In south-east Queensland, people want a better service.
Our callers generally are saying they would be prepared for politicians to spend more setting it up. We've got new suburbs of Brisbane coming through, and Telstra is putting up copper wiring through it.
There are businesses in the CBD that can't get great connections. It is just the issue we know people will call up about.
Victoria's CFA dispute
The CFA dispute is about a pay rise for the very small number of paid firefighters who work for the Country Fire Authority. Tens of thousands of volunteers are part of the CFA across Victoria, but closer in Melbourne there are CFA stations with paid firefighters.
The volunteers fear the union is going to take over and in some fundamental way, change the way they work inside a volunteer organisation.
At the back of Bill Shorten's campaign bus at the end of each day, they must sit around with a beer and say: 'Which one of us told Daniel Andrews it was okay to shoot Bambi during a federal election?'
Because frankly, if you'd beaten an animal to death on television, it would have been easier to deal with. It is toxic; it's getting violent.
People have already called our show to say they've cast their pre-poll vote, and there are CFA volunteers handing out leaflets that say 'put Labor last'.
Not simply don't vote for Labor, but put Labor beneath the Liberal Party, because of the union's influence.
I don't know if Victoria is ever crucial to a federal election result, but what it has done is it has killed off any chance of Labor making a gain.
The X factor
We have three big brands in South Australia: the Adelaide Crows, Farmers Union Iced Coffee and Nick Xenophon. It's quite a potent brand.
His nickname is Saint Nick. Most of the polling shows his vote is sitting at somewhere between 20 to 28 per cent state wide.
Both major parties say Nick Xenophon will get four Senate seats.
Adelaide has an older demographic, and the two big issues for us have been superannuation and penalty rates.
It's a city and a state that is very scared at the moment. The disillusionment has kicked in.
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