Day 1 of the federal election campaign

FEDERAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN: DAY 1

WHERE THE LEADERS CAMPAIGNED:

* Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull: Spent the morning in Brisbane's suburbs, visiting the Labor marginal seat of Moreton; Liberal marginals Petrie and Bonner.

* Labor leader Bill Shorten: In North Queensland, visiting Cairns in the Liberal seat of Leichhardt.

WHAT THE COALITION WANTED TO TALK ABOUT:

A corporate tax cut is crucial to boosting the economy in the face of global uncertainty, the PM argued.

WHAT LABOR ANNOUNCED:

A $100 million scholarship plan to create more indigenous teachers.

WHAT MADE NEWS

Two new opinion polls - Newspoll and Ipsos - showing what we already knew: there's nothing between the parties, and voters prefer Turnbull over Shorten as prime minister.

THEY SAID WHAT?

"It is going to absolutely knock the stuffing out of all of us. It is going to infuriate, bore, send people crazy, ultimately."

- Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce about the eight-week campaign.

FOOT-IN-MOUTH MOMENT

Sophie Ismail, Labor's candidate in the Greens seat of Melbourne, proudly tweeted a Fairfax Media article showing her at odds with the party's asylum-seeker policy. "I don't think they should be on the table," she said about boat turnbacks.

TWEETED:

"Shorten sick of "three word slogans" which like "people before politics" is a three word slogan," Barnaby observes.