FEDERAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN: DAY 23
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WHERE THE LEADERS ARE CAMPAIGNING
* Prime Minister Scott Morrison: starting in Melbourne before heading to Brisbane for the people's forum debate
* Labor leader Bill Shorten: starting in Melbourne before heading to Brisbane for the people's forum debate
* Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack will spend more time in his NSW electorate of Wagga Wagga where he's expected to watch the running of the Gold Cup in the afternoon.
WHAT THE COALITION WANTS TO TALK ABOUT
Protecting Australia's waterways and threatened species with a $203 million election commitment, but will also keep up the attack on the cost of Labor's policies.
WHAT LABOR WANTS TO TALK ABOUT:
Funding for the disabled with the announcement Labor would create an NDIS future fund to guarantee that every dollar budgeted for the scheme will go towards it.
"Labor's NDIS future fund will be a locked box - a budgeted guarantee to Australians with disability that the NDIS will be properly and fully funded." - Bill Shorten.
WHAT IS MAKING NEWS:
* School students are staging another strike for climate change on Friday. This time they will be targeting several offices of the federal politicians across the country. Meanwhile, disability advocacy group Every Australian Counts will hold rallies across the country as part of the National Day of Action on the NDIS.
SOURCE AAP
