Timeline of 2019 election campaign

What has happened over the first eight days of the 2019 federal election campaign.

FIRST FULL WEEK OF FEDERAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN

DAY 1

* Prime Minister Scott Morrison calls election for May 18

* Labor leader Bill Shorten starts his campaign in a suburban Melbourne backyard

DAY 2

* Morrison heads to western Sydney to talk about Labor's $387 billion tax grab

* Shorten, also in western Sydney, outlines more of Labor's package to reduce the cost of dealing with cancer

* Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton comes under fire for comments about his Labor opponent Ali France, who had a leg amputated after a 2011 car accident

DAY 3

* Morrison campaigns in Sydney, talking about youth and indigenous mental health. PM caught on camera saying a Chinese greeting to a Korean woman

* Shorten heads to NSW central coast and Sydney to talk about skin cancer

* Dutton apologises to Ali France

* Labor candidate in the WA seat of Curtin Melissa Parke quits, after a furore over her comments on the Israel-Palestine situation

* Liberals lose three candidates over eligibility questions, after two had citizenship problems and one held a public service job

DAY 4

* Morrison campaigns in Brisbane talking up training for young jobless people

* Shorten campaigns in Sydney pitching Labor's health funding for the states

DAY 5

* Morrison campaigns in Melbourne, speaking about the government's economic credentials

* Shorten is also in Melbourne arguing the merits of health funding versus tax cuts for the wealthy

* Newspoll puts the coalition and Labor primary vote at 39-all but Labor leads in two-party terms 52-48

DAY 6

* Morrison campaigns in Geelong, taking aim at Labor over superannuation taxes

* Shorten visits Adelaide to talk more about health funding

* Tony Abbott says he'd return to the Liberal leadership if it was uncontested

DAY 7

* Morrison heads to Tasmania to talk about regional jobs and Labor's superannuation policy

* Shorten visits Perth to unveil more of the cancer policy

* Treasury reveals laws are needed to bring in part of the coalition's tax cut plan

DAY 8

* Morrison campaigns in Tasmania, taking aim at Labor over tax and climate policies

* Shorten heads to the Northern Territory to talk about indigenous health

* Labor releases figures showing why high-end tax cuts should be scrapped and government debt should be paid down

* Clive Palmer announces he'll run for the Senate in Queensland, while crossbench senator Tim Storer pulls out of the race in South Australia


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