Super Saturday looms

Federal politics is getting ready for possibly its most important day since the last federal election.

Labor leader Bill Shorten at a campaign launch Source: AAP

Federal electorates in four different states will hold by-elections on the same day this weekend. 

And whilst those electorates are just five of the 150 seats in the lower house of federal parliament, the results of the voting could be felt far and wide across federal political scene.