FEDERAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN: DAY 19
WHERE THE LEADERS CAMPAIGNED
* Prime Minister Scott Morrison: WA (Fremantle)
* Labor leader Bill Shorten: WA (Stirling)
WHAT THE COALITION WANTED TO TALK ABOUT
Its record defence industry spending and plans to lift funding for the sector to two per cent of GDP.
WHAT LABOR WANTED TO TALK ABOUT:
Its plans to make child care cheaper for parents and increase pay for workers in the sector.
THE LATEST POLLS
* Newspoll showed a tightening to 51-49, with Labor still ahead. But the coalition's primary vote dropped one point to 38 per cent (four points shy of its 2016 result) and Labor's also went down, to 37 per cent.
* A poll, supposedly showing an independent running in Julie Bishop's old seat of Curtin has slashed the Liberal vote by 20 per cent, was revealed to be fake.
WHAT MADE NEWS:
* Voter concerns about tax and climate policy are expected to dominate the first leaders' debate of the federal election campaign on Monday night.
* With early voting opening, how-to-votes cards being handed out across the country revealed the truth about who has done preferences deal with whom.
THEY SAID WHAT?
"Bill Shorten's going to be a very hungry caterpillar chomping into your wallet, chomping into your wallet, to pay for his spend-a-thon."
- Morrison picks on his opponent's choice of reading material in a childcare centre.
TWEETED:
Senator Murray Watt - @MurrayWatt: "The fix is in. Qld LNP MPs swap preferences with Hanson, despite Morrison's demands. A vote for One Nation is a vote for the LNP. A vote for the LNP is a vote for One Nation."
