Shorten boosts busker's business

Bill Shorten is great for business.

That's the view of busker Hans Kieft, who encountered the opposition leader on a street walk in Nowra, in the NSW south coast Liberal marginal seat of Gilmore.

The retiree with a passion for jazz wowed Mr Shorten, wife Chloe and son Rupert with his rendition of When the Saints Go Marching In on the electronic wind synthesiser which is played like a saxophone.

Mrs Shorten noted that daughter Clementine, 6, would be dancing if she was there.

Mr Kieft gleefully inspected his hat full of cash, after the family, Labor supporters, shoppers and media pack moved on.

"His son gave money, I have to vote for him now," Mr Kieft told AAP.

"To be really honest, I wouldn't vote for the other guy."

Mrs Shorten encouraged some high school girls to ask her husband a question and was later mistaken by a Labor supporter for being their teacher.

Saskia Hall, 13, obliged and asked Mr Shorten about Labor's education plans.

Mrs Shorten said she admired the girls' courage.

Mr Shorten was keen to emphasise Labor's national broadband network plans when he popped into a computer store.

"Not having the NBN strangles rural towns," Mr Shorten said.

Mr Shorten is fielding questions from voters at a town hall meeting on Tuesday night alongside Labor's candidate Fiona Phillips.

Gilmore is held by Liberal MP Ann Sudmalis on a slim 3.8 per cent margin.

Earlier on Tuesday Mr Shorten visited a solar farm in the ACT with Eden-Monaro candidate Mike Kelly, who is trying to win back the bellwether NSW seat for Labor.

Amusingly, one of Mr Shorten's political minders tried to get all the TV cameras to move position for the press conference so the sun would not be in his eyes.

Mr Shorten later addressed the National Press Club in Canberra where he urged voters to put education and health ahead of business tax cuts and ruled out granting himself wiggle room to drop any policies.