FEDERAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN: DAY 34
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WHERE THE LEADERS ARE CAMPAIGNING
* Prime Minister Scott Morrison: is starting in Adelaide, before heading to Geelong then Tasmania.
* Labor leader Bill Shorten: is starting in Tasmania before heading west to Perth.
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WHAT THE COALITION WANTS TO TALK ABOUT
How Labor's business policy will give tax breaks to big business and multi-nationals, and not crack down on them.
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WHAT LABOR WANTS TO TALK ABOUT:
Getting a decent wage for the lower paid and how it will deliver on health services.
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WHAT IS MAKING NEWS:
* A new opinion poll indicates a third of Queenslanders have turned off the Greens, thanks mainly to the Bob Brown-led anti-Adani convoy that drove throught the state over Easter. Just 12 per cent of the 848 people surveyed in the Courier-Mail YouGov/Galaxy poll said they would be more likely to vote for the Greens in Saturday's election because of the convoy. Another 34 per cent said they were less inclined to vote for the Greens.
* Labor leader Bill Shorten's role in the Beaconsfield mine disaster again resurfaced when he met Peter James, a paramedic involved in the rescue mission. Mr Shorten shot to prominence in 2006 when he was Australian Workers' Union supremo, representing the two trapped men who were eventually rescued after days trapped underground. "Beaconsfield was an amazing rescue though wasn't it?" Mr Shorten said. "It was," Mr James said.
* Clive Palmer, who has spent around $50 million on advertising to get his United Australia Party into parliament, has been spotted at a resort in Fiji just days before Saturday's election. A picture of him dining with friends appeared on social media, but Mr Palmer says he was visiting a terminally ill friend. A spokesman told News Corp the Queensland billionaire would be back on the campaign trail within 24 hours.
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THEY SAID WHAT?
* "If Australians decide against six more years of cuts and chaos from a Morrison government and vote for change, a Shorten Labor government will not delay the pay rise that Australian workers deserve." - Labor's letter to the Fair Work Commissioner.
* "I don't see it that way at all." - former foreign minister Julie Bishop on Scott Morrison describing China as a customer of Australia.
* "I will not stand by and allow Labor-Union thugs to intimidate women, and I will certainly not allow anyone to verbally abuse my wife." - Swan Liberal MP Steve Irons after he was filmed angrily lashing out at Labor campaigners.
