FEDERAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN: DAY 7
WHERE THE LEADERS CAMPAIGNED:
* Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull: Southwestern Sydney in the marginal Liberal seat of Macarthur, before heading across the Nullarbor to Perth.
* Labor leader Bill Shorten: Kingscliff, northern NSW, in the Labor-held seat of Richmond the Greens are targeting as part of a long-range plan.
WHAT THE COALITION TALKED ABOUT:
Subsidies for young Type 1 diabetes sufferers.
WHAT LABOR TALKED ABOUT:
School funding and $41 million to teach kids how to swim.
WHAT MADE NEWS
* Doctors launch a national campaign against government over Medicare rebate freeze until 2020.
* Labor said a poor take-up rate and high hourly rates show a taxpayer-subsidised trial of nannies is not a solution to childcare woes.
* Government made the most of terrorism-related charges against five men who attempted to take a boat to Syria, but an attempt to embarrass Labor backfired.
THEY SAID WHAT?
"He has an inspirational self-made background and he's got to disable Labor's attack by telling his story rather than let them define him."
- Peta Credlin, Tony Abbott's former chief of staff, tones down her "Mr Harbourside Mansion" jibe at Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.
TWEETED:
@vanbdham: "This is disquieting: woman asks PM question about homelessness, gets dragged away - at a shopping centre."
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