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Peter Dutton will launch a last-minute blitz of seats in his final week of the campaign, targeting marginal electorates across the country but snubbing the nation’s capital.

The opposition leader has dipped further in the polls but is attempting to target 28 seats in just six days as part of the Coalition’s last-ditch but “high energy” attempt to win a majority government.

Dutton will start Sunday at a rally in west Melbourne ahead of the final leaders’ debate with Anthony Albanese in Sydney tonight.

Seats visited in the final push include Hawke, Aston, Dunkley, Gorton, Goldstein and Kooyong in Melbourne while Bennelong and Mackellar in Sydney, and Moreton in Brisbane, will get a stop.

Darwin will get another visit, according to current plans, with Dutton planning to make another pitstop in Solomon.

In the regions, swinging seats north of Sydney – Paterson and Dobell – will get attention while Perth’s Bullwinkel and Adelaide’s Boothby are on the radar.

Blitz is an accurate description to go by if the last week is an example. The past week of Dutton’s travels could easily be characterised as fast-paced with those in the travelling media pack visiting every state and territory apart from the ACT.

Of course, the nation’s capital is where Dutton is pledging to slash 41,000 of around 69,000 public service jobs – or almost 10% of the territory’s total population or about 15% of the working population.