WATCH: What happens when the PM calls an election? Take a drive with 9News

The Prime Minister is due to make the drive to Government House and call the Federal Election today.

Scott Morrison will meet the Governor-General and ask him to dissolve parliament, as part of an election process rich in tradition and important under Australia's Constitution.

Nine's Political Reporter Jonathan Kearsley takes us along the route the Prime Minister will take, and what might be going through his mind. Watch the video above.

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