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
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"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
