DAY 4 OF THE FEDERAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN
WHERE THE LEADERS ARE CAMPAIGNING:
* Prime Minister Turnbull: Frankston in Melbourne's outer southern fringe. Located in the Liberal seat of Dunkley, being vacated by former small business minister Bruce Billson.
* Labor leader Bill Shorten: Rockhampton in the electorate of Capricornia. It's the government's second most marginal seat in parliament with a slim 0.8 per cent margin.
WHAT THE COALITION TALKED ABOUT:
Australia's free-trade agreements; the tax cut for small business and its plan for jobs and growth.
WHAT LABOR TALKED ABOUT:
Its plan to fully finance the Gonski schools funding plan.
PROMISES, PROMISES, PROMISES
Labor pledged $10.6 million to double the number of specialist prostate cancer nurses.
WHAT'S MADE NEWS
* Labor is in damage control as the party's national executive prepares to disendorse its candidate for the seat of Fremantle.
* PM dismisses suggestions there was any impropriety around his association with a British Virgin Islands company set up to exploit a Siberian gold prospect.
* Turnbull backs one of his MP who says he doesn't want refugees in his north Queensland electorate because there aren't enough jobs to go around.
AWW, SHUCKS
"My present is standing right next to me."
- Bill Shorten about wife Chloe, when asked what present he wanted for his 49th birthday.
TWEETED:
@AlexHBeech: "Nick Xenophon has made pizza boxes in response to "Christopher Pyne Delivers" campaign signs."
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