Pollie waffle: Canberra circus captured on camera

Is it a campaign stunt, is it a joke? No, it's a new music video featuring some of Australia's most high profile politicians and press gallery journalists.

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Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott are among a handful of Canberra types to lend their talents to local band Super Best Friends for their new video clip - grey suits, daggy haircuts and all. The song is aptly named 'Round and Round', and Pollie Waffle awards it our 'must watch' gold star this morning.

WATCH: Canberra politicians go round and round

Back on the campaign trail, Tony Abbott is on the Great Ocean Road this morning with the Liberal candidate for Australia's most marginal seat of Corangamite, Sarah Henderson.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is back in Brisbane where he has spoken at a rally protesting local school closures.

Today marks the first day Australians can register their vote, with pre-polling centres opening from today. If you're going to have a tough time getting to a polling place on September 7, go here and find out where you can submit your early vote.

For those voters overseas who may be lamenting the fact that they're missing all the action from the campaign trail, never fear. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is bringing the campaign to you, or, at least to those voters in Hong Kong. Proof of the fact that in this election, every vote counts.

And while Labor's campaign goes cross country, the Rudd v Murdoch fued continues to play out across hemispheres. The Prime Minister's daughter, Jessica, has taken to Twitter in the following exchange:

Meanwhile the Liberal candidate for Wakefield Tom Zorich has helped take some of the heat off the beseiged candidate for Lindsay, Jaymes Diaz. In a video that has amassed over 10, 000 hits since it was uploaded today, Mr Zorich admits he's "not across" his party's direct action policy on climate change.

WATCH: Liberal candidate "not across" direct action policy 


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