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What they said on Day 14 of the campaign

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WHAT THEY SAID ON DAY 14 OF THE ELECTION CAMPAIGN

THE BEST LINE

"The black hole of unfunded promises keeps on getting deeper and darker."

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- Malcolm Turnbull on what he thinks of Labor's financial plans.

PRIME MINISTER MALCOLM TURNBULL

"Bill Shorten, yet again, is putting some more hundreds of millions of dollars, nearly $1 billion, on what he calls the spendometer. He thinks it's a joke."

- On Labor's plan to dump coalition cuts to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme and Medicare payments to doctors.

LABOR LEADER BILL SHORTEN

"I think that a prime minister who can't put the health of Australians first needs to find a new job."

- Comparing priorities with those of Mr Turnbull.

THE SECOND XI

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"You talk about health in the macro level and often it is about policies and numbers, but for me it has always been about to be patient, the individual."

- Health Minister Sussan Ley announces measures to give more young Australians access to cancer drug trial without travelling overseas.

"It's a false economy ... that savings can come from health."

- Labor's health spokeswoman Catherine King takes aim at cuts the government's made.

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"I don't make the rules. None of us as politicians make the rules, we are just expected to comply with them."

- Finance Minister Mathias Corman just hates the fact he can claim expenses for his Canberra house as tax deductions.

"I own one house and I live in it, so I have not made those claims."

- Shorten also didn't know about the tax perk but can't take advantage of it anyway.

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IT'S TORTURE

"No question that the psychological torture of not being able to actually resettle, and you can't go back home, is torture."

- World Vision chief Tim Costello on the treatment of asylum seekers on Nauru.

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