With one week left until Australians must cast their vote in the federal election, Scott Morrison and Bill Shorten have descended on Melbourne, armed with plans they hope will drum up last-minute favour.
Mr Morrison is appealing to women who have stepped out of the workforce to look after their children or elderly parents, by vowing to spend $75 million on career checks that will help them crack back into the job market.
Sport is also on the agenda for the prime minister, who wants to spend $70 million on upgrading facilities, staging events and creating high-performance facilities.
Scott Morrison. Source: AAP
He's also promised $15 million to set up a permanent home in Melbourne for the national women's soccer team, the Matildas.
Mr Shorten is promising to beef up the Australian-made content on the national broadcasters ABC and the SBS.
A Labor government would give the ABC $40 million and SBS $20 million for extra drama, comedy, children's documentary and music programs created Down Under.
The prime minister has spent the week touring regional Australia, focusing on issues specific to the electorates he's campaigned in near the NSW and Victorian border, on the NSW central and mid-north coast, and in central Queensland.
Australian Opposition Leader Bill Shorten. Source: AAP
The Labor leader's week on the hustings has taken him to hospitals around the country to spruik his party's pledges in health care.
Mr Shorten is likely to be pressed further on Saturday on his party's policy costings, which were released in Canberra on Friday mere minutes after he finished a press conference in Cairns.
Labor is promising it will deliver bigger surpluses than the coalition's budget laid out.
This improvement relies on its planned changes to negative gearing and capital gains tax, ending cash refunds from franking credits, and a range of clampdowns on tax concessions totalling $154 billion over the next 10 years.
But it will likely have to negotiate the support of a potentially hostile crossbench to get these measures through a Senate.
Mr Shorten on Friday refused to countenance that, saying he hadn't won the election yet.
Mr Morrison was quick to dismiss Labor's costings by plugging on with his attack line that the opposition lacks credibility on managing the economy.
"There's always something very fishy when it comes to Labor's claims about managing money," he told reporters in Rockhampton on Friday.
