Highlights of federal election campaign

Australia's political leaders attended Anzac Day services and ballots were drawn across the country in campaign week overshadowed by the Sri Lanka bombings.

WHAT HAPPENED IN THE FEDERAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN WEEK 2

* Prime Minister Scott Morrison campaigned in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Darwin, Townsville and Gladstone

* Opposition Leader Bill Shorten campaigned in Melbourne, Brisbane, Cairns, Gladstone, Townsville, Darwin and Melbourne

* There were three campaign truces for Good Friday, Easter Sunday and Anzac Day

* The Easter Sunday terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka cast a shadow over the campaign, killing more than 250 people including two Australians.

* Morrison confirmed one of the suicide bombers had studied in Australia

* The Liberals faced questions about 'watergate', two controversial water buybacks to companies with ties to the Cayman Islands, which cost $80 million

* Barnaby Joyce, who was water minister at the time, says he has nothing to hide (in an extraordinary ABC radio interview)

* Polling shows a surge of support for Clive Palmer, prompting the Liberals to engage in a preference deal with him

* Shorten goes on his morning run with rugby league legend Johnathan Thurston

* Shorten is grilled over his position on Adani, saying he won't be "bullied over the coal mine"

* Protesters rally outside the campaign launch for Nicolle Flint in Boothby, with signs critical of her support for Peter Dutton in the Liberal leadership spill

* Activist group GetUp withdrew its controversial ad depicting a budgie smuggler-clad Tony Abbott refusing to rescue a swimmer, following outrage from lifesavers

* The Australian Electoral Commission ballot draw occurs across the country, giving Pauline Hanson's One Nation a boost with lucky draws in Queensland and Western Australia

* Morrison addresses the crowd at an Anzac Day dawn service in Townsville, as Shorten does the same in Darwin

* Morrison disappoints punters by not skolling his beer at a pub on Anzac Day

* Shorten is introduced as "Chloe Shorten's husband" at an event at the Queen Victoria Women's Centre in Melbourne


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Published 26 April 2019 2:30pm
Source: AAP


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