FEDERAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN: DAY 10
WHERE THE LEADERS CAMPAIGNED:
* Prime Minister Turnbull: Cairns, in the coalition seat of Leichhardt, where he pledged funding to upgrade port facilities for naval and commercial vessels. Then to Townsville and the seat of Herbert to make a rail freight announcement.
* Labor leader Bill Shorten: Sydney, promising $175 million to help unclog key Sydney roads by shifting more freight containers onto rail.
WHAT THE COALITION TALKED ABOUT:
* The thousands of small and medium businesses that will benefit from enterprise tax cuts.
WHAT LABOR TALKED ABOUT:
* Spending money on much-needed rail freight infrastructure in Sydney.
* A national interest test for gas exports.
WHAT'S MADE NEWS:
* The government claimed the hypocrisy of Labor's negative-gearing policy has been exposed after a senior opposition figure failed to declare his interest in a $2.3 million property.
* Turnbull lauded the performance of his immigration minister as he insisted Australia's migrant policy was built on a "pillar of compassion".
* Foreign Minister Julie Bishop scolded Shorten for saying Donald Trump would be "very difficult" to deal with if he becomes the next US president.
* Annual wage price index growth, at 2.1 per cent, stumbled to its slowest pace in nearly two decades.
WHAT HE SHOULD HAVE KNOWN:
"I'm not sure what skills the refugees have."
- Liberal senator Ian Macdonald, clearly forgetting names such as Frank Lowy, Sidney Myer, Victor Chang.
TWEETED:
"That arrogance will lose them this election. They can't even do evil properly."
- Zelda @SandyDiscombe on the coalition.
