WHAT THEY SAID ON DAY 36 OF THE ELECTION CAMPAIGN
THE BEST LINE
"I love coriander."
- Scott Morrison admits to a controversial herbal opinion.
SOME HELPFUL ADVICE
"Did you know that if you're at First Choice and you google up the price of whatever you're buying and it's cheaper at Dan's, you go to the person at First Choice and they give you the Dan's price?"
- Practical shopping tips with Bill Shorten.
PRIME MINISTER SCOTT MORRISON
"Now is not the time."
- While Shorten channelled Gough Whitlam's It's Time campaign launch, Morrison repeated the opposite line nearly 20 times during a press club address
"I will burn for you every day, every single day, so you can achieve your ambitions, your aspirations, your desires."
- Was the PM recruiting Jimmy Barnes, John Farnham or prime ministerial favourite Tina Arena in his pitch for why Australians should vote for him?
LABOR LEADER BILL SHORTEN
"Vote for change."
- A simple message he hopes will be heeded.
"I promise that we will send a message to the world, that when it comes to climate change Australia is back in the fight ... We will take this emergency seriously."
- Toughening up his language and hinting Australia will follow the UK and Ireland in declaring a climate emergency
REAL PEOPLE
"Let's hope you come good on Saturday."
- A stall holder at Sydney Markets to the prime minister.
THE SUPPORT CAST
"There are crocs, there are sausage dogs and of course there are an endless stream of polls ... We are looking at a very close election."
- Coalition campaign spokesman Simon Birmingham when asked about an allegedly psychic crocodile who has predicted a Labor win.
"Terry McCrann said vote Bowen and Shorten to end the world and Kerri-Anne (Kennerley) says vote Labor to end life as we know it. Neither of these things are in our policy documents."
- Good to know, shadow treasurer Chris Bowen.
