QUOTES FROM SUPER SATURDAY OF BY-ELECTIONS
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"Let's be fair dinkum about it. Labor should be miles ahead." - Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.
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"It was nice of him to turn up." - Labor candidate for Braddon Justine Keay, who shook hands with the PM outside a polling booth.
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"I never give up." - Labor leader Bill Shorten.
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"If the planet's not healthy, we're not healthy. And without that where are we? We're on the next spaceship to Mars." - Greens candidate for Mayo, Major 'Moogy' Sumner.
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"I love my community. That is why I put may hand up two years ago, that is why I put a second mortgage on our house two years ago. People said that was crazy. I just felt I had to do it." - Centre Alliance candidate for Mayo, Rebekha Sharkie.
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"I certainly had people who identified as Liberal voters saying that they weren't sure what to do. I pointed out ... that I haven't got horns, that maybe they need to make an exception and it will be our secret." - Labor candidate Josh Wilson in Fremantle, where the Liberals did not stand.
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"GetUp are an extreme left-wing organisation who engage in dodgy practices." - Queensland Liberal senator James McGrath backs an investigation into GetUp's conduct in Longman.
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"This electorate has growing pains. It is expanding and we need someone who understands the community and can find solutions." - Liberal candidate for Longman, Trevor Ruthenberg.
