FEDERAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN: DAY 33
WHERE THE LEADERS CAMPAIGNED
* Prime Minister Scott Morrison: Western Sydney (Lindsay, ALP 1.1 per cent)
* Labor leader Bill Shorten: Sydney (Reid, Lib 4.7 per cent), Gosford (Robertson, Lib 1.1 per cent)
WHAT THE COALITION WANTED TO TALK ABOUT
Its new policy to guarantee up to 15 per cent of a loan for first home buyers, meaning they would only have to save up a five per cent deposit.
WHAT LABOR WANTED TO TALK ABOUT:
How the coalition government can't be trusted with providing services, bringing up the memory of the 2014 budget which cut funds for schools, hospitals and pensions.
THE LATEST POLLS
* The latest Newspoll has Bill Shorten on track to win this weekend. Labor still leads by 51 to 49 per cent on a two-party preferred basis, with its primary vote also up slightly to 37 per cent. The coalition's primary is up to 39 per cent. And just seven points now separate Mr Shorten and Scott Morrison in the preferred prime minister stakes.
WHAT MADE NEWS:
* Clive Palmer accused the Queensland government of blocking one of his companies from accessing a port - but the port authority says that's not the case - while his lawyer said workers sacked from Townsville's Queensland Nickel refinery three years ago have finally started receiving their entitlement payments.
* The car of Belinda Hassan, Labor's candidate in the marginal coalition seat of Dawson in north Queensland, was targeted in a suspected arson attack, the Courier-Mail reported
* A modern-day Lady Godiva has taken a 'naked' horse ride through Melbourne hoping to shock voters to act on climate change ahead of the federal election.
THEY SAID WHAT?
"Now, in 2029 those two failed political parties no longer exist as they became redundant when the New World Order (a long planned revolution by the United Nations) took control of Australia."
- United Australia Party's Brian Burston writes up an apocalyptic imagining of what the country will look like in a decade's time.
