SYDNEY: Australians began voting in national elections Saturday with conservative leader Malcolm Turnbull the slight favourite ahead of Labor’s Bill Shorten, although opinion polls point to it being a close race.
Polling stations opened at 8:00 am (2200 GMT) with some 15.6 million electors taking part in a mandatory ballot across the huge country, with a final survey putting Turnbull, who has campaigned on economic management, marginally ahead.
