What they said on Day 12 of the campaign

What leaders Scott Morrison and Bill Shorten and their teams said today in the election campaign.

WHAT THEY SAID ON DAY 12 OF THE ELECTION CAMPAIGN

THE BEST LINE

"You don't pay Versace prices for water that you get from The Reject Shop."

- Labor's environment spokesman Tony Burke isn't impressed by Barnaby Joyce approving a $80 million water purchase

PRIME MINISTER SCOTT MORRISON

"Love is the basis of peace and it's what binds us all together as an Australian people.."

- Morrison visits a Buddhist temple in Berwick, in the wake of the Sri Lanka terrorist attacks.

"They're keyboard warriors in their mother's basement trying to make heroes of themselves."

- On Twitter trolls likening him to a Nazi

LABOR LEADER BILL SHORTEN

"It is unthinkable that people at prayer should be the subject of this cowardly terror attack. And we stand with Sri Lankan Australians."

- Shorten on Colombo attack.

"We now have the laboratory of extreme right-wing thinking in the real world - no longer just a theory, this government got the penalty rates cuts that they wanted."

- On Labor's push to restore penalty rates

REAL PEOPLE

"A cloud of immense sadness is shrouding our hearts."

- Buddhist teacher Champika Yatawara

THE SUPPORT CAST

"This is about making sure that people from migrant and multicultural communities can get time and love and affection with their grandparents."

- Labor immigration spokesman Shayne Neumann on the party's new migrant parent visa policy


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