June 30, 2016
SYDNEY (AFP) - Australia has battled through one of its longest election campaigns ahead of polling on Saturday, with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Labor leader Bill Shorten on the hustings for almost eight weeks.
Here are five of the best quotes from the campaign trail:
"That is voodoo economics. It's worse than that -- it's Zoolander economics" - Treasurer Scott Morrison on Labor's economic plan.
"It is the kind of economics you might hear spoken around the public bar on a drunken night 10 minutes before closing time" - Senior Labor MP Richard Marles on the Liberal coalition's plan for the economy.
"Bill Shorten is turning into an episode of Fawlty Towers -- if it weren't so serious it would be funny" - Immigration Minister Peter Dutton, likening Shorten to the show about an incompetent hotel owner.
"He's going off like a fish milkshake" - Labor MP Jason Clare on Turnbull disappointing voters.
"Man boobs Bill" - Former Labor leader Mark Latham's description of Shorten after footage of him jogging.