The leaders of two minor parties say they're confident that many Australians will abandon Labor, the Coalition and the Greens and vote for them on September 7.
They're federal MP Bob Katter, founder of Katter's Australian Party, and businessman Clive Palmer, founder of the Palmer United Party.
As Amanda Cavill reports, the two men have outlined their parties' policies at the National Press Club, saying voters no longer support the mainstream parties.
There are a record 54 registered political parties ranging from the Animal Justice Party to the WikiLeaks Party contesting this year's federal election.
Most of them won't win a seat in either the House of Representatives or the Senate.
However, two of the minor parties will a good chance of succeeding are Katter's Australia Party and the Palmer United Party.
Bob Katter says he's campaigning on increasing exports, restoring the live cattle trade to Indonesia, improving the lives of indigenous Australians, and helping to stimulate growth by lowering taxes and export charges.
He says voters want parties with fresh ideas and values that are not being offered by the major parties.
"Every election now over 20 per cent of the electorate simply will not vote for the mainstream parties. I mean the Greens. You'd have to be really desperate, in my opinion, to vote for the Greens. And yet they do."
Mining magnate and would-be politician Clive Palmer is offering voters a 15 per cent cut in income tax, and making the first ten-thousand dollars in home loan repayments tax deductible.
He says he'd also encourage Ford, Holden and Toyota to merge their Australian operations.
Mr Palmer says the policies of the big parties are failing Australians and their leaders are more concerned with getting elected than telling the Australian people what they need to know.
"Abbott doesn't know that's why he has photo opportunities instead of press conferences. Rudd doesn't know that's why he lives with photo groups and pays more attention than the needs of the Australian people. They offer no hope for the future. They are devoid of ideas. Prime Ministers may come and go but ideas go on forever. Australians want to know."
Mr Katter says bringing a number a smaller parties into the national government would deliver fairness and equity for all Australians, while breaking the power of the big two parties.
He says governments would be forced to become reactive to the electorate and not make arbitrary decisions that no-one wants.
"Every other country on Earth has a multi-party system. Even backward England, who is on a sort of 17th century arrangement, even they are multi-party now. You reflect the will of a lot of people and you are much more answerable. But if you've got a duopoly...why do Woolworths and Coles charge you two dollars forty five for potato that they purchase for 50 cents? Because they can. Why do the two party system couldn't care less about what you think? Because they can ."
Clive Palmer and Bob Katter have struck a deal to swap preferences in voting for the House of Representatives and the Senate.
This could deliver both parties at least one seat in the Senate and possibly a seat in the lower house also.
