Bill Shorten was back in his home town of Melbourne after campaigning in Perth but despite the change in location, the message remained the same.
"The Prime Minister is deliberately going out of his way to mislead Australians about his intentions on Medicare. If you listened to him, yesterday he said he knew nothing about the privatisation taskforce. What Productivity Commission report, he says? What report? The truth of the matter is, you don't have to take my word for what the Prime Minister is proposing with Medicare. I would like to quote you his words in February specifically, when asked about Labor in parliament this year, Mr Turnbull replied, 'Any outsourcing would apply only to back-office operations and administrative operations of making payments to individuals and providers.' He spelt it out. He showed clear awareness of the privatisations proposals of the payment systems. Not me saying that, it's Malcolm Turnbull on Malcolm Turnbull."
Finance Minister Mathias Cormann has backed his leader, telling the ABC the Coalition does not plan to privatise the payments system.
"The Coalition never had a plan to privatise Medicare. Some years ago various options to modernise the payments system were assessed including, incidentally, by the Labor party. When Chris Bowen was the Minister for Human Services he looked at various options including in relation to this. The truth is that Medicare under the Coalition is in very good shape."
But the Prime Minister has taken a new direction, saying this election could mark a milestone for Indigenous Australians.
Malcolm Turnbull was in Darwin where he witnessed the hand-back of land after Australia's longest-running land claim.
The Kenbi land claim was first lodged in 1979 and covers 676 square kilometres of the Cox Peninsula, west of Darwin.
Mr Turnbull told the gathering this federal election is significant for Indigenous Australians, pointing out that at least 12 candidates for the July 2 election identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander.
"If six or seven of those candidates are successful, we will have parity in our Parliament. That is our first Australians will be represented in the Parliament as they are in the population. There is much more to be done, but we should celebrate these achievements as milestones."
Elsewhere, the deputy leaders of the two main parties debated foreign policy in Canberra.
When asked about whether it was a priority to reach the bipartisan Millennium Goal of spending 0.5 per cent of GDP on foreign aid, Julie Bishop and Tanya Plibersek gave these responses:
Bishop: "It's an aspiration. It always has been."
Reporter: "And the Labor party?"
Plibersek: "It's our long-term goal."
But when pressed on the timing, opposition foreign affairs spokeswoman Tanya Plibersek says it won't happen any time soon.
"The cuts are so deep, the damage is so great, that it will take us a substantial amount of time to repair this damage. What we've said is we'd add $800 million additional to what the government is spending over the next four years. $450 million of that would to go the UNHCR. We heard reports again that the number of displaced people globally has risen again to 65 million. That means about one in every 113 people around the world is either internally displaced, a refugee or fleeing persecution in one way or another. So we believe that working with the UNHCR is absolutely critical."
Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says the 0.5 per cent formula is just that, a formula.
"It does not, of itself, mean better outcomes in health or education or security, or governance. It is a guide, it's an aspiration. Some countries say 0.7 per cent others say 0.4 per cent. It is just a formula. What we've focused on given the devastating financial circumstances we inherited after six disastrous years of the Rudd-Gillard-Rudd Government is our approach of targeting our aid and ensuring that it is more effective, more efficient and more in line with driving economic growth in the recipient countries."
Greens foreign affairs spokeswoman Sarah Hanson-Young, speaking to Sky News, denounced both parties for not committing to a time to reach that goal.
"Firstly, we do need a timeframe and a plan to reach what was originally committed actually, which was not 0.5 per cent but 0.7 per cent, in terms of our contribution for overseas aid and shamefully Australia is far behind. We've already got countries in Europe that reached the 0.7 per cent benchmark years ago and the fact that we haven't reached 0.5 is just a tragedy."
