End of the first day of the second week and what happened? Let's look back and see:
Tony Abbott was in Melbourne where he visited a traffic management centre and promised to be an infrastructure prime minister;
Kevin Rudd was in Sydney where he visited a Macquarie University research centre and promised $35 million to help retrain manufacturing workers;
there was not much snap, crackle and pop left over from last night's debate - more "mock and bore than shock and awe" was how chief political correspondent Mark Kenny described it; but
tomorrow holds the economic excitement that is the release of the pre election economic and fiscal outlook (PEFO).
And one final reminder - four hours to go until the electoral rolls close. It's your last chance to enrol to vote if you have not already done so.
My thanks - as always - to Andrew Meares and Alex Ellinghausen for their hard work and to you for reading and keeping us company.
See you in the morning.
Breaking news reporter Jonathan Swan is travelling with Mr Abbott.
In this video Jonathan reports on Mr Abbott's promise to be the "infrastructure prime minister" as well as Mr Abbott's unfortunate choice of words at a campaign event earlier today (see 10.51 am post). You can read his story here.
At the weekend Labor lost two candidates (yes, I know - to lose one candidate is unfortunate, to lose two is careless).
One was Geoff Lake who was running in former minister Simon Crean's Melbourne seat of Hotham until some unsavoury footage of him abusing a woman at a 2002 council meeting emerged.
Mr Lake has been replaced by Clare O'Neil, a former mayor of Dandenong turned management consultant.
Mr Rudd announced $35.6 million to retrain manufacturing workers who wanted to move from low tech to hi tech industries.
The latest piece in our series on the big issues of the campaign is available.
Today, The Age's education editor, Jewel Topsfield, looks at education policy.
Education is a bread and butter issue for Labor (indeed, much of the past three years has been about reform of the school funding system) but it has not yet made much of an appearance on the campaign trail.
Back in those fraught days following the 2010 election campaign Tony Windsor (then the independent MP for New England) recalled a conversation with Tony Abbott in which Mr Abbott begged the cross benchers to make him prime minister.
"The only thing I wouldn't do is sell my arse - but I'd have to give serious thought to it," was how Mr Windsor recalled Mr Abbott's conversation.
This was weighing on Mr Windsor's mind in light of Mr Abbott's "suppository" remark earlier today:
While things are quiet allow me to point you in the direction of some of the cool interactives Fairfax Media has come up with as part of its campaign coverage.
Hmmm, it's quiet, isn't it? Neither Mr Rudd nor Mr Abbott have any further events planned for the day.
In the meantime check out this video from Daniel Burt, an Australian living in Paris, who pottered about Paris asking people about l'election. Tres drole.
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Mr Rudd used last night's debate to raise the issue of gay marriage - namely that if he was re elected he would introduce a bill on the matter within the first 100 days.
Coalition leader Tony Abbott remains personally opposed to the issue and to any change in the Coalition's position ahead of the election. However, he says the issue could be revisited if the party room brought it up after the election.
Liberal MP Kelly O'Dwyer is a supporter of gay marriage. But she thinks Mr Abbott's position is entirely reasonable.
