Week 2 of the federal election campaign

FEDERAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN: WEEK 2

WHERE THE LEADERS CAMPAIGNED:

* Prime Minister Turnbull: All around the country, but more specifically in the Labor seat of Fremantle, coalition marginals Solomon (NT) Leichhardt, Herbert (QLD), Macarthur (NSW) twice and Bass (TAS); Dobell (NSW), Robertson (NSW).

* Labor leader Bill Shorten: NSW marginal seats of Richmond, Robertson, Dobell, Reid, Paterson, Lindsay, Macarthur (twice); Victorian marginal Corangamite and safe Labor seat Corio (VIC); Port Adelaide (SA); relatively safe NSW Labor seats of Chifley and Kingsford-Smith

* Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce: regional Victoria, especially the seat of Murray to talk to angry dairy farmers.

* Greens leader Richard Di Natale: Seats the minor party is hoping to win from Labor like Batman in Melbourne.

WHAT THE COALITION TALKED ABOUT:

* Its border protection record and the iffy bipartisan commitment of Labor candidates.

* Its naval shipbuilding program and what Labor commissioned - nothing - during its six years in government.

* Its economic plan for jobs and growth.

* Free-trade deals with Japan, South Korea and China.

WHAT LABOR TALKED ABOUT

* How it would save Medicare from coalition cuts.

* What Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said about refugees.

* Malcolm Turnbull's "disastrous" management of the national broadband network rollout.

WHAT THEY WERE FORCED TO DEFEND

* Coalition: Dutton's controversial comments about refugees; federal police raids on a Labor senator.

* Labor: Frontbencher David Feeney's failure to declare a $2.3 million negatively-geared property; candidates who don't agree with party policy on asylum seekers.

* Greens: What leader Richard Di Natalie was paying his live-in nannies.

PROMISES, PROMISES, PROMISES

* Coalition: $54 million to to give 4000 young Australians with Type 1 diabetes continuous glucose monitoring devices; $43 million to extend Tonsley rail link in Adelaide; $50 million to upgrade Appin Road in south-western Sydney; $15 million PET scanner for Darwin; $30 million for environment programs for community groups.

* Labor: End the six-year freeze on indexed Medicare rebates from January 2017 at a cost of $2.4 billion over four years; $500 million to upgrade Adelaide's tram network; $175 million to upgrade rail freight link from Port Botany in Sydney; $41 million to teach kids how to swim; $59 million assistance for workers made jobless by the departure of car makers between now and 2017; $50 million to upgrade Appin Road in south-western Sydney; $15 million PET scanner for Darwin.

* Nationals: $8.8 million to eradicate Yellow Crazy Ants in Far North Queensland.

* Greens: Increase Australia's annual humanitarian intake of refugees to 50,000.

C'MON BILL ...

"Now come on! Give us a kiss and a cuddle for the cameras!"

- A wheelchair-bound Margo Carey demands from Bill Shorten during a street walk in Adelaide. She got one on the lips, but only after asking for a "proper kiss".

WHAT HE WOULDN'T SAY

Labor's workplace relations spokesman Brendan O'Connor declined to say "yes" when asked seven times by 3AW's Neil Mitchell if he supported his leader's past statements backing any decision the Fair Work Commission makes on penalty rates.

REAL PEOPLE

"Pity the garden wasn't nicer."

- Audrey Patchell as the media throng descended on her Mt Druitt front lawn for a media conference by the Opposition Leader Bill Shorten.

TWEETED:

@JoelRDodd: "Dear @TurnbullMalcolm, You can't soar with eagles when you're surrounded by turkeys."