What they said on Day 2 of campaign

WHAT THEY SAID ON DAY TWO:

THE BEST LINE

"In golfing parlance it amounts to one big national mulligan, a request to have another shot because the first one's gone awry."

- Shadow treasurer Chris Bowen on the coalition's case for re-election.

PRIME MINISTER MALCOLM TURNBULL

"Remember, nobody in the Labor Party did more to create the Julia Gillard prime ministership than Bill Shorten. Right now he looks as though he wants to re-enact it."

LABOR LEADER BILL SHORTEN

"He's dreaming," the opposition leader says of Greens MP Adam Bandt's suggestion the minor party was up for forming a coalition government with Labor in a hung parliament.

THE SECOND XI

"Australians would be horrified by the idea of another hung parliament."

- Deputy Labor leader Tanya Plibersek.

"We're not running a charity here for the ALP quite frankly."

- Liberal Party's Victorian state president Michael Kroger about talk of preference deals with the Greens.

"The choice couldn't be starker. You've got the homophobia and the sexism of the Family First party versus the forward-looking agenda of the Greens."

- Greens leader Richard Di Natale in Adelaide.

"This is harder than Chinese arithmetic."

- 2GB broadcaster Ray Hadley on the treasurer's eight-minute explanation of budget changes to superannuation tax concessions.

WHAT SHE DIDN'T SAY

Cathy O'Toole, Labor's candidate for the seat of Herbert, refuses to utter the words "boat turnbacks" when reporters quizzed her about support for the party's asylum-seeker policy.