FEDERAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN: DAY 5
WHERE THE LEADERS CAMPAIGNED
* Prime Minister Scott Morrison: Melbourne (Deakin, Chisholm)
* Labor leader Bill Shorten: Melbourne (Gellibrand, La Trobe)
WHAT THE COALITION WANTED TO TALK ABOUT
This election is a choice between a government with a proven ability to manage money and Labor, which is demonstrating it can't.
WHAT LABOR WANTED TO TALK ABOUT:
How it is a priority to cut elective surgery waiting lists instead of giving unsustainable tax subsidies to the top end of town.
THE LATEST POLLS
* Newspoll shows the coalition's primary vote lifted to 39 per cent, on level pegging with Labor, but two-party preferred stays at 52-48 in Labor's favour.
WHAT MADE NEWS:
* The government claims there is a $6 billion hole in Labor's costings for its cancer policy. Labor says this is wrong.
* Former Liberal Democrat senator David Leyonhjelm, who quit federal politics to run in the NSW election, failed to win a seat in the state's upper house.
* The Victorian government is spending $1 million on ads attacking the federal government's funding of schools and hospitals, but the state opposition has asked the anti-corruption watchdog to look into the legality of the move.
THEY SAID WHAT?
"You're not going to put a big unit on a horse if you want it to run fast."
- Morrison mixes his sporting metaphors to make a point about economics.
TWEETED:
"Woke up this morning to find some right wing columnist for the Tele has ranked Greens candidates based on 'smugness'. Anyway, he gave me 8.2 out of 10 which I am deeply offended by bc I definitely deserve a 10. I'm a gay vegan cyclist. What more do I need to do to score 10/10??!"
- Greens candidate Matthew Thompson @matthewtgreens
