Federal Election 2019: Day five of the campaign

Pauline Hanson has kicked off One Nation's campaign in Adelaide where she took an anti-immigration stance, as Scott Morrison defended his AFL references on local Melbourne radio today. 

Pauline Hanson has kicked off One Nation's campaign in Adelaide where she took an anti-immigration stance, as Scott Morrison defended his AFL references on local Melbourne radio today. 

Senator Hanson, visiting as One Nation party’s support was revealed to have crashed to four per cent in the latest Newspoll following the guns-for-funds scandal — told The Advertiser the cost of electricity was at the centre of the state’s population and business woes. 

"South Australia has put up their hands because you want migrants coming to the state,” she said. 

“It’s a real shame because you’re not working hard enough to encourage those people that are born in the state that would really love to stay here but cannot afford to stay here, or they haven’t got work in the state.

“You have got to have baseload power.” 

Earlier the PM was asked if he had "jumped on the Collingwood bandwagon" after he managed to get racing, AFL and an attack on Labor's tax changes into one analogy this morning on local radio 3AW. 

Host Neil Mitchell seized on the AFL reference saying: "You've jumped on the Collingwood bandwagon, have you?"

"I don't have a team. My team's the Cronulla Sharks up in Sydney," he said. 

"I don't. I like AFL but I'm not a phoney. I'm not going to go around pretending I'm someone I'm not. 

The prime minister headed to Deakin to announce road upgrades, as he bids to ensure Liberal MP Michael Sukkar holds the seat.

Mr Shorten campaigned in the seat of La Trobe, held by Liberal MP and former police officer Jason Wood.

The Labor leader is announcing $250 million to cut urgent elective surgery waiting times in state public hospital systems.

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Originally published as Federal Election 2019: Day five of the campaign