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What they said on Day 32 of the campaign

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WHAT THEY SAID ON DAY 32 OF THE ELECTION CAMPAIGN

THE BEST LINE

"Women are paying almost half a billion dollars extra in tax over the decade just for having a uterus."

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- Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young responds to Labor's backdown on removing the so-called tampon tax.

PRIME MINISTER MALCOLM TURNBULL

"You must be very relieved."

- Tells Tasmanian premier Will Hodgman as the pair watch raging floodwaters in Launceston.

LABOR LEADER BILL SHORTEN

"On matters like this, politics takes a back seat."

- On the Tasmanian floods.

THE SUPPORT CAST

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"It takes two to tango and we're not on the dance floor."

- Labor's Chris Bowen insisting Labor won't team up with the Greens in a hung parliament.

"Hold the front page, business doesn't want to pay less tax. I don't think that's a great revelation."

- Bowen again on a business campaign supporting corporate tax cuts.

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"He can talk about a decade all he likes but, as the PM said yesterday, a decade ago there wasn't an iPhone."

- Treasurer Scott Morrison about Bowen's budget estimates.

"It screams of policy created without enough women in the room."

- Greens deputy leader Larissa Waters on Labor's change of mind on the tampon tax.

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"As a federal parliamentarian, I don't take orders from the military."

- Liberal MP Andrew Hastie, a former SAS officer, on his sacking from the Army Reserve for using his past role in campaign billboards.

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