FEDERAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN: DAY 1
WHERE THE LEADERS CAMPAIGNED
* Prime Minister Scott Morrison: Visited the Governor-General in Canberra.
* Labor leader Bill Shorten: Media event in a backyard in suburban Melbourne (seat of Deakin).
WHAT THE COALITION WANTED TO TALK ABOUT
Its track record on building up Australia's economy and how a strong financial footing is vital in paying for services like schools, hospitals and roads.
WHAT LABOR WANTED TO TALK ABOUT:
How its energised, united team will govern in the interests of everyday Australians and address the issues they care about such as health.
WHAT MADE NEWS:
* Voters will go to the polls on May 18.
THEY SAID WHAT?
"You vote for me, you'll get me. You vote for Bill Shorten and you'll get Bill Shorten." - Scott Morrison rehearses a line you'll probably hear a lot over the next 36 days.
"We've made a conscious decision to start the 2019 campaign in the family lounge room of an everyday Australian family - two kids, two marvellous handsome little boys going to the public school, both parents are working." - Bill Shorten does what common people do.
TWEETED:
"I hope Sir Pete's out of his jarmies! #bringiton" - @gedkearney on the PM's early morning visit to Yarralumla.
