FEDERAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN: DAY 22
WHERE THE LEADERS CAMPAIGNED:
* Prime Minister Turnbull: Western Sydney, in the marginal Liberal seat of Lindsay.
* Labor leader Bill Shorten: Cairns, in the Liberal seat of Leichhardt.
WHAT THE COALITION TALKED ABOUT:
* More pilot sites for the Pathways in Technology Early College High School program, aimed at getting students job-ready.
WHAT LABOR TALKED ABOUT:
* Its $500 million plan to help save the Great Barrier Reef.
* We're working for business, not for them.
* Bring on more debates with the PM.
WHAT MADE NEWS:
* Former Labor state treasurer accuses the federal party of being anti-business over opposition to corporate tax cuts.
* Labor may need to dump its support for an energy payment to welfare recipients as the opposition flagged more spending cuts. * An analysis of Newspolls from the past two months shows the coalition is set to suffer swings against it in Queensland, NSW and Western Australia.
FLOP
The Malcolm Turnbull-Bill Shorten debate was the 10th most popular television program on Sunday night. Its five-city audience total of 529,000 was far short of the top ranking show Seven News which had 1.424 million viewers. What's worse, when it ended after an hour there were only 93,000 people still watching.
THEY SAID WHAT?
"How could you tell this isn't the real Tony Abbott, it's just as animated."
- The Chaser's Craig Reucassel hijacks the PM's street walk in Penrith with a cut-out figure of Tony Abbott.
TWEETED:
@3AWNeil Mitchell: "This election is increasingly looking like a choice between chicken pox and measles."
