FEDERAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN: DAY 12
WHERE THE LEADERS CAMPAIGNED:
* Malcolm Turnbull: The marginal Liberal seat of Bass in northern Tasmania to spruik free-trade deals that help local farmers.
* Bill Shorten: The safe Labor seat of Chifley in western Sydney to repeat a pledge about lifting the freeze on indexed increases to Medicare rebate; later in the marginal Liberal seat of Robertson on the NSW Central Coast.
WHAT THE COALITION TALKED ABOUT:
Free-trade agreements it has secured.
WHAT LABOR TALKED ABOUT:
* The timing of federal police raids on one of its senators and staffers over NBN leaks.
* How it will defend Medicare against coalition attacks.
WHAT MADE NEWS:
* Federal police insisted the government had nothing to do with its raids.
* Treasury and finance officials warned the economic and fiscal forecasts underpinning the government's budget are based on benign assumptions and will prove optimistic without further reforms.
* Labor threatens to help Nick Xenophon bag coalition seats in South Australia, if the Liberals do a deal with the Greens.
* Greens leader Richard Di Natale insists he did not break the rules by failing to declare joint ownership with his wife of a farm property.
WHAT THEY SAID
"This is about the right for the public to know the truth"
- Shorten on the AFP raids.
TWEETED:
"The team from Kitchen Cabinet have arrived and they want me to cook. I think there has been a terrible mistake."
- Greens senator Scott Ludlam.
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