WHAT THEY SAID ON DAY 13 OF THE ELECTION CAMPAIGN
THE BEST LINE
"This is about us continuing to act as an agile government."
- Agriculture Minister David Littleproud harks back to a favourite Malcolm Turnbull phrase in announcing an audit of water buybacks
PRIME MINISTER SCOTT MORRISON
"Bill Shorten is the godfather of GetUp."
- On the activist group campaigning against Adani in Queensland.
"I notice Bill Shorten may be vanishing from their election material, but I tell you what, if you vote for one of Bill Shorten's candidates he won't vanish as prime minister."
- The electoral commission doesn't partake in wizardry.
LABOR LEADER BILL SHORTEN
"There is only one person who has been resurrected and I won't compare Clive Palmer to him."
- On Palmer's surge of support in marginal seats.
"The LNP has got a factory at an undisclosed location where they can find candidates so out of touch with the real world it is remarkable."
- On a LNP Senate candidate who accused the Bureau of Meteorology of rewriting weather records to fit in with global warming.
REAL PEOPLE
"I think he'll sneak in. I don't like Labor."
- Retired business owner John Quirk
THE SUPPORT CAST
"Everyone except for Barnaby Joyce knows his career peaked with the Pistol and Boo deportation."
- Labor's Brendan O'Connor casts his mind back to the Barnaby v Johnny Depp dog dilemma.
"My judgment is that in the first stages of the campaign Scott Morrison has gained ground."
- Former prime minister John Howard
