Labor party head Julia Gillard presented a vague social transformation scheme while Coalition bet Tony Abbott promised a budget surplus. Persuading the public continues three days into the election.

Gillard said Labor's proposed National Broadband Network would transform health care, education, and employment. She said, under the broadband program, 93 percent of households across the country will be connected through a fibre optic cable which will carry information at one gigabit per second.

Coalition's Abbott, on the other hand, focuses on a budget surplus twice as big as Labor's. He said debt can be reduced by a third by 2013 if their party would run the government. The Coalition boasts of a $6.2 billion budget surplus compared to Labor's $3.5 billion. According to WHK Horwarth, the accounting firm that evaluated the Coalition's proposal, a $7.3 billion surplus is also possible in 2014.

Coalition promised a reduction in government debt from $90 billion to about $60 billion. The party also plans to do away with Labor's 'cash for clunkers program in order to increase savings. Nearly $50 billion in savings is expected over a four-year period once the Coalition also scraps the Christmas Island detention centre and increasing public efficiency dividends to 2 pc.