Federal election campaign Day 3

DAY 3 OF THE FEDERAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN

WHERE THE LEADERS CAMPAIGNED:

* Prime Minister Turnbull: Western Sydney for a morning tea with businesswomen in the marginal Liberal seat of Lindsay, held by Fiona Scott.

* Labor leader Bill Shorten: Mackay in the central Queensland seat of Dawson, held by Nationals MP George Christensen, and Townsville in Herbert held by Liberal Ewen Jones.

WHAT THE COALITION TALKED ABOUT:

More of the same: its plan for the economy, especially growth and jobs.

WHAT LABOR TALKED ABOUT:

Its plan to make schools funding conditional on evidence-based learning programs that are proven to increase student results.

PROMISES, PROMISES, PROMISES

Labor pledged $4.6 million to identify target-teaching resources.

WHAT MADE NEWS

* The coalition under attack from "white hot" angry retirees about the planned crackdown on superannuation tax concessions.

* The Greens lay out conditions for support of minority Labor government in a hung parliament.

* Liberal MP Fiona Scott declines to say who she voted for in the Abbott-Turnbull contest eight months ago.

ARE YOU SURE YOU SAID THAT?

"We say what we mean, we mean what we say, we do what we say we'd do, in the way we say we'd do it."

- Treasurer Scott Morrison campaigning in Tasmania.

YOU TUBED:

A new video showing Tony Abbott's first day of the campaign only got worse when a disgruntled commuter told him: "You are a homophobic dinosaur, why don't you f*** off and die."