What they said on Day 10 of the campaign

WHAT THEY SAID ON DAY 10 OF THE ELECTION CAMPAIGN

THE BEST LINE

"When it comes down to a beauty parade for who's best qualified to educate the children of Australia, I'll pick the teachers and curriculum experts over the right wing of the Liberal Party every time."

- Labor leader Bill Shorten when asked about funding the Safe Schools program past 2017.

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.

LABOR LEADER BILL SHORTEN

"They're comments Pauline Hanson would have been proud to make."

- On Immigration Minister Peter Dutton's comments about "illiterate and innumerate" refugees swamping welfare queues and taking the jobs of locals if Australia's humanitarian intake is substantially increased.

THE SECOND XI

"Nobody knows what the price is over a four-year period."

- Finance Minister Mathias Cormann on the best guess for the price of iron ore, despite it being a crucial element of budget forecasting.

"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 the refugees have."

- Liberal senator Ian Macdonald.

"When Peter Costello of all people tells the Liberal treasurer that his policies are irresponsible, you know that there's something deeply wrong."

- Labor superannuation spokesman Jim Chalmers.