With fewer than three days until polling day, the Greens have held their official campaigning launch in Melbourne. Leanne Wong filled this report from Wills, one of the seats the Greens are eyeing off in this federal election.
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00:00About a hundred party faithful have packed this pub in Melbourne's inner north tonight
00:06to watch Greens leader Adam Vance launch the party's national campaign
00:10alongside candidate for wills and former Victorian Greens leader Samantha Ratnam.
00:15Now tonight's campaign launch is centred around one of the party's core election pledges
00:19which is getting dental into Medicare.
00:22New analysis by the Parliamentary Budget Office commissioned by the Greens and released today
00:26suggests that families could save more than $2,500 in the first year of the expanded Medicare scheme
00:32while families of four could save close to $30,000 over 10 years.
00:37The policy would be paid for by the Greens' plans tax on big corporations and billionaires
00:42which PBO analysis also suggests could generate $577 billion over the median term
00:49which the party says is more than enough to cover the cost of bringing dental into Medicare.
00:54Speaking to supporters tonight, here's what Greens leader Adam Vance had to say.
00:58One in three people around the country at the moment are not voting for the major parties
01:04and the experts are saying that at this election it could be as high as 40% of people
01:10are saying that they don't want the major parties anymore.
01:13People want these ideas, like dental into Medicare, like making childcare free, put on the table.
01:21Now the Greens are looking to win several seats off Labor right across the country
01:25including Wills and McNamara here in Melbourne
01:28and if there is a minority government, it means the Greens could hold significant influence.
01:33Let's look at that for Silence.
01:34I don't see it.
01:37Now the Greens have asked that William
01:38told Mr.
01:53I don't do it in those days too.
01:55Come on, he fincaated it now.