Two weeks until the 3 May election day, and Anthony Albanese is cracking jokes about Star Wars. Every profile and sketch of the prime minister during this campaign – which is now past its halfway – speaks of the confidence and even swagger Albanese projects as he travels the country. It is one of the starkest differences to his 2022 campaign, which was dominated by missteps: forgetting key economic figures, then his untimely Covid diagnosis and images of being chased out of a press conference by journalists. This time, he’s on top and he knows it. This week’s Guardian Essential
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