WHERE THE LEADERS WENT

DAY 10

BILL SHORTEN spent the day in Cairns in the marginal electorate of Leichhardt, where he went up the Skyrail Rainforest Cableway with wife Chloe, before talking to workers at Cairns Base Hospital. He finished the day in Townsville. SCOTT MORRISON visited Sakyamuni Sambuddha Vihara in Berwick, outer Melbourne, then Pakenham Football Club. He was accompanied at each event by La Trobe MP Jason Wood and wife Jenny Morrison. Finished the day at the AFL watching Hawthorn play Geelong.

THEME OF THE DAY

Getting down to business. After an Easter long weekend truce, both leaders were back out on the campaign hustings. But the devastating Sri Lankan terrorist attack lingered over the events of the day.

SPENDOMETER Coalition

$5 million to help multicultural communities start new business $10 million to support elderly migrants access aged care $280,000 to complete a new Multicultural Education and Resource Centre in La Trobe

Labor

$40 million to improve regional tourism infrastructure $30 million in new tourism experiences $100 million to help councils maintain regional councils

QUOTES OF THE DAY

Invite us around for a party! — audience member at Liberal event after the Prime Minister said he loved cooking curries. You don’t pay Versace prices for water you get from the reject shop — Labor’s water spokesman Tony Burke on the water buyback in the Murray-Darling Basin.

‘WHAT THE?’ MOMENT OF THE DAY

It seems Bill Shorten is already counting down the date to the May 18 poll. The Labor leader and his wife Chloe listened tothe Europe classic The Final Countdown while riding the Skyrail Rainforest Cableway in Cairns.