Try this in America and you'll get tased, bro. Or worse. The man in the picture is Kevin Rudd, who will most likely replace John Howard as Australia's Prime Minister in one week when the elections are held, getting "mobbed" by students while campaigning at a college campus in Melbourne yesterday.

According to the latest polls, Labor has an 8-point lead (54-46), which would be enough to gain them the 16 seats needed to take control, but the race appears to be tightening in the final days. Howard has closed the gap on Rudd in the "preferred Prime Minister" question to just four points, 42-46.