Bill Shorten started his day meeting women who had been diagnosed with ovarian cancer in Melbourne.
Mr Shorten says should Labor win the July 2 poll, they'll commit $8 million to help with early detection of the disease.
" Labor will fund collaborative research over the next four years into the causes of ovarian cancer and methods by which we can have better early detection. 1500 women this year thereabouts will be diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Nearly a thousand will die from ovarian cancer this year. The early signs and symptoms cannot be screened at this point."
Whilst campaigning in the Dandenong ranges, the prime minister pledged $20 million to improve tourism infrastructure in the region.
" What we are doing here is investing $20 million into important economic infrastructure that drives growth and jobs right here in Victoria. 6 million visitors to the Dandenongs and the Yarra Valley every year. 10,500 people in this district work in the tourism sector. "
Dairy farmers meanwhile have been offered a multi million dollar assistance package from the federal government.
The Coalition - which is in caretaker mode ahead of the election - says it consulted with the opposition before making the announcement.
It follows cuts in prices by two major milk processors because of a global decline which have left many Victorian and Tasmanian farmers in debt.
Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce says the relief package includes millions of dollars in loans .
"We will be putting close to $600 million towards a package. $555 million of that will be in concessional loans. On August 1, this rate will go as low as 2.66 per cent. It's currently at 2.71 per cent. Farmers will be able to borrow a million dollars or half of what they owe, whichever is the lesser that they can assist themselves to get through this current crisis. This is what the industry asks of us, this is what the dairy farmers were asking of us. "
But Labor's agriculture spokesman Joel Fitzgibbon has told the A-B-C, he only found out about the deal through the media.
"It's very disappointing because a week ago now, three weeks into the crisis, Barnaby Joyce declared to the world he's not able to do anything because we are in election mode. Then 25 hours later he wrote to me formally and said I want you to jump on board. I thought, great, because anything we promise as a package could be implemented in six weeks time if we are elected. The government can do something now. So I welcomed his hand of bipartisanship but sadly he never came - and I said you have my authority to progress the package as long as it's meaningful and appropriate, we will support it. But keep me in the loop. Sadly, he's never got back to me. "
Elsewhere on the campaign trail, former N-I-T-V journalist and N-T government minister Malarndirri McCarthy has confirmed that she will nominate for the Northern Territory Labor Senate seat.
It comes after the current Indigenous Senator Nova Peris revealed that she will not recontest her seat at the July 2 federal election.
There is speculation that Marion Scrymgour - a former minister and deputy chief minister in the N-T government - is also being considered for the role.
The party will meet in coming days to find a replacement.
Meanwhile, the Coalition has been forced to defend its costing assessments after Labor accused it of fabricating them.
The government claims Labor's pledges on the campaign trial will plunge the country further into debt.
It says calculations it's made put the deficit at $67 billion and that that will grow to almost $200 billion over the next decade.
And in what appears to be an unfortunate mix up, Finance Minister Mathias Cormann praised the wrong leader's commitment to jobs and growth.
"Bill Shorten is very caring and very much in touch and Bill Shorten every single day is promoting our national economic plan for jobs and growth. Which is, of course, exactly what Australia needs given the continued global economic head winds."
Although he did correct himself, Bill Shorten was quick to seize on the comments.
"I guess it is the second Coalition Minister this week to come out in support of our policies. Sussan Ley famously said this week she would liked to have convinced Treasury and Finance about adopting our health policies. I guess Senator Cormann officially terminated Mr Turnbull's scare campaign."
And in another light moment, Hollywood actor Johnny Depp reignited his war of words with Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce.
Last year, Mr Joyce threatened to euthanize the actor's dogs after he illegally smuggled them into the country.
"Barnaby Jones. He looks somehow inbred with a tomato. It's not a criticism. I was a little worried that he might explode."
Mr Joyce has laughed off the insults.
"I'm turning into Johnny Depp's Hannibal Lecter, I'm inside his head, I'm pulling strings and levers. Long after I've forgotten about Mr Depp, he is remembering me. So, just keep on advertising me Johnny. The Australian people know we did the right thing."
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