Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and opposition leader Bill Shorten have made their respective entrances to the North Melbourne Grand Final Breakfast to the strains of Billy Joel’s Second Wind and Taylor Swift’s I Shake it off.

Held every year since 1967, only two prime ministers have missed this AFL tradition which sees political, leaders put aside politics in the name of Aussie rules.

The West Coast Eagles go head-to-head with Hawthorn in the premiership decider at 2.30pm in what are expected to be sweltering conditions.