Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is confident he is winning voters over with his focus on jobs and growth, despite new polling showing Labor in front.
Three weeks into the two-month campaign, the 7News-ReachTel poll, released on Friday, has Labor ahead 52-48 on a two-party preferred basis.
Earlier in the week Newspoll and Essential had Labor leading the coalition 51-49 per cent, reversing the Fairfax-Ipsos result from the previous weekend.
Mr Turnbull has campaigned in the marginal seats of Carpicornia (Qld), Eden-Monaro (NSW), Corangamite (Vic) and La Trobe (Vic) this week, and says his message is getting through.
"This has been a great week. We've been rolling out examples of our national economic plan day after day," Mr Turnbull told reporters in Sydney on Saturday.
"Our economic plan is committed to driving jobs and growth right across Australia and Australians can see that. We're very pleased with the reception we're getting."
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten said Labor still had the harder job ahead of it, needing 21 seats to win the July 2 election.
"The sort of swing required to do that has been achieved very rarely in Australian history," he told reporters on Saturday.
"That's why I understand that we're the underdog."
Labor frontbencher Anthony Albanese said people had been "very disappointed" in Mr Turnbull, who ousted Tony Abbott as prime minister last September.
"He spoke about a new politics when he took over the leadership and what they've seen is the same policies," he told reporters in Sydney.
Independent senator Jacqui Lambie said the prime minister had "fizzled" so far because he's being stifled by his party.
"I would really love to see the man be able to get in his boots and do it himself and show us how it is done properly. I just don't think he has been let off the strings," she told the Nine Network.
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