FEDERAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN: DAY 13
WHERE THE LEADERS CAMPAIGNED
* Prime Minister Scott Morrison: Adelaide (Mayo and Boothby)
* Labor leader Bill Shorten: Gladstone (Flynn) and Mackay (Dawson) in Queensland
WHAT THE COALITION WANTED TO TALK ABOUT
Small business will get a boost from the coalition, while Labor will hammer them with taxes.
WHAT LABOR WANTED TO TALK ABOUT:
Rewriting the rules around foreign workers and scrapping a $5 billion coalition slush fund.
THE LATEST POLLS
* Preferences from Clive Palmer's United Australia Party could be crucial in some marginal seats, says a Newspoll.
* The Voter Choice Project gives Labor a 52.8-47.2 two-party preferred lead over the coalition after the first week of campaigning, with 58 per cent saying the country is on the wrong track.
WHAT MADE NEWS:
* The enrolment rate is at a record high of 96.8 per cent, including 88.8 per cent of eligible 18 to 24 years olds.
* The auditor-general has been called in to look at water buybacks going back to 2008, in a bid to stem a fierce debate over a controversial 2017 purchase.
* Morrison hasn't ruled out a preference deal with Palmer, given the Newspoll.
THEY SAID WHAT?
"If climate change is happening it is not because man is causing it to happen. What happened to the dinosaurs, how did they die off? Humans didn't create it."
- Pauline Hanson doesn't accept man-made climate change is happening.
TWEETED:
"Is it just me or are the voters getting glazed eyes over the daily announcements of a hundred million here, a hundred mill there? Why didn't they commit it while in government?"
- Senator Derryn Hinch clearly impressed by the campaign so far.
