What they said in Week 2 of the campaign

WHAT THEY SAID DURING WEEK 2 OF THE ELECTION CAMPAIGN

THE BEST LINE

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

- 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".

THE WORST LINE

"For many people, they won't be numerate or literate in their own language let alone English. These people would be taking Australian jobs, there's no question about that ... they would languish in unemployment queues and on Medicare, and the rest of it."

- Immigration Minister Peter Dutton about what would happen if the humanitarian refugee intake was substantially increased as Labor and the Greens propose.

PRIME MINISTER MALCOLM TURNBULL

"It's very expensive, we don't begrudge the money, but it's important to get it right."

- On the $800 million annual cost of resettling refugees.

"That would be delightful. I might paddle my kayak across the harbour to join him."

- On helping Tony Abbott win the seat of Warringah, across the water from his electorate of Wentworth.

LABOR LEADER BILL SHORTEN

"It isn't good enough just to lift a slogan from a George Bush campaign and say: fantastic, let's do it."

- About the coalition's "jobs and growth" strategy.

"We are a Labor party that has found its voice again."

- To party faithful about the ALP under his leadership

THE SECOND XI

"This is my legacy, this is Malcolm Turnbull's legacy, and that's why it's so important that we re-elect a coalition government on July 2."

- Abbott lending a hand at his campaign launch.

"At times you've got park things and move on, otherwise you live your whole life looking back over your shoulder and you are going to get angry and bitter."

- Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce tells coalition supporters to move on from Abbott's dumping.

"This is not an election where it's the top half of the cup versus the bottom half of the cup. Malcolm Turnbull has decided to back in the very top, the froth of the cappuccino."

- Labor campaign spokesman Tony Burke fronts the media, possibly before having his own morning coffee.

"Australia lost a premier over a bottle of wine. What happens to someone who doesn't declare a $2.3 million property."

- Greens MP Adam Bandt about Labor frontbencher David Feeney's failure to declare a negatively-geared home.

"I'm not sure what skills refugees have."

- Liberal senator Ian Macdonald, clearly forgetting names such as Frank Lowy, Sidney Myer, Victor Chang.

WHAT HE DIDN'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 on backing the independence of the Fair Work Commission on penalty rates.

FROM THE TOP END

"Yesterday they made clowns of themselves trying to one-up each other's promises before the PM arrives."

- The NT News takes aim at both parties over separate pledges to fund a $15 million PET scanner for Darwin.

WRONG, WRONG, WRONG

"When it becomes a pattern, the pattern becomes a problem, and particularly the seat of Boothby and Dunkley, where he did not have the candidates, I think was a mistake."

- Peta Credlin, Tony Abbott's former chief of staff and now full-time Turnbull critic, gets it wrong about the PM's campaigning in two marginal seats.