FEDERAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN: DAY 9
WHERE THE LEADERS CAMPAIGNED:
* Prime Minister Turnbull: Darwin, in the marginal Country Liberal seat of Solomon, then to Cairns in far north Queensland.
* Labor leader Bill Shorten: Adelaide to pledge $500 million towards extending the city's tram network.
WHAT THE COALITION TALKED ABOUT:
* Border protection and why you can't believe Labor can do it as well as the coalition.
WHAT LABOR TALKED ABOUT:
* Assisting the automotive sector to create export markets.
* How the government stuffed up the so-called backpacker tax.
WHAT'S MAKING NEWS:
* Shorten struggles to explain how Labor will implement its campaign pledge to protect weekend penalty rates.
* The backpacker tax, due to begin on July 1, will be deferred for six months for a ministerial review.
* Seven more Labor candidates are at odds with the party's asylum-seeker policy.
* Darwin to get a $15 million PET scanner no matter which side wins.
WHAT THEY SAID
"Mr Turnbull's clearly been told lies or he's telling lies."
- Shorten on the PM's claim about Labor's border protection policy.
"We know they will not perform, that they will fail, that they lack the conviction to be strong, to be strong in Australia's interests."
- Turnbull on Labor and border protection.
TWEETED:
"Telling porkies gets easier for pollies as ABC axes Fact Check unit."
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