Two weeks into the election campaign and we've already had our fair share of political gaffes.
One Nation candidate Pauline Hanson has been the latest to fall victim to her own words, forgetting the name of UK Prime Minister David Cameron.
Ms Hanson was defending her firm anti-immigration stance to SBS Radio's Tamil program when she stumbled.
“Multiculturalism is divisive. And it's Cameron Thompson… Cam um… Cameron, um, … the Prime Minister of Great Britain, he actually came out just recently saying how divisive multiculturalism has been to his country..”
The Former One Nation leader takes the heat off Tony Abbott, who also fumbled his lines today.
Speaking in Melbourne at the launch of Liberal candidate Michael Sukkar's campaign, Mr Abbott tried to contrast the established frontbench of the Liberals with what he depicted as Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's domination of Labor's bid for re-election.
"No-one, however smart, however well-educated, however experienced, is the suppository of all wisdom, and I believe that we will be a much better government because we have a very strong team."
Mr Abbott meant to say repository, a location for storage, but instead used a word that means a drug delivery system that is typically inserted into the rectum.
The Opposition Leader's unfortunate slip has since made global news with UK media websites The Telegraph and The Guardian both picking up the story.
The Coalition was also on the back foot last week with the Liberal candidate for Greenway, Jaymes Diaz, becoming the star of the campaign trail's first viral video.
In an excruciating seven-minute interview with Channel Ten's John Hill, Diaz failed to outline the party's six-point policy to 'stop the boats' while clutching the very pamphlet that outlined the policy.
“Well, one of the points, the key point would be stopping the boats when it's safe to do so,” Diaz said.
On the Liberal's Direct Action policy, Diaz added: “We're doing more than planting trees … we have a solar panel.”
But the grand prize goes to National Party Candidate, Stephanie Banister. In an interview with Channel Seven the candidate for the seat of Rankin outlined her opposition to - and ignorance of - Islam.
“I don't oppose Islam as a country, but I do feel that their laws should not be welcome here in Australia,” Ms Banister said.
The mother of two also confused the words 'Koran' and 'halal' with 'haram' on multiple occasions.
“Jews aren't under haram, they have their own religion which follows Jesus Christ,” she said.
“They don't have a tax on [kosher foods], they've just got a certain way of making it where haram has a tax on the food.”
Ms Banister has since withdrawn her candidacy from the election.
Although the majority of slip-ups have fallen on the right-wing side of politics, Labor hasn't been unscathed.
Lindsay MP David Bradbury lost his temper with radio journalist Glenn Daniel when his claims about the Coalition's position on interest rates were questioned.
When Mr Daniel corrected the minister, who had taken Shadow Treasurer Joe Hockey's statement out of context, Mr Bradbury replied: “Sorry, Glenn, are we having an argument here or am I on air? I'm just trying to work that out.”
When the reporter continued to press Mr Bradbury, he said: “Sorry Glenn, are you a Liberal Party member here, or what's going on?”
“This is extraordinary, I've never experienced anything like this. Do you do this all the time?”
With another four weeks of campaigning left to go, there's no telling how many more gaffes are yet to come.
