FED:Leader's movements - week four

AAP General News (Australia)
08-13-2010
FED:Leader's movements - week four

Snapshot of electorates where leaders campaigned in the fourth week of the election campaign



SATURDAY August 7:

GILLARD - Was in Brisbane for a peace meeting with Kevin Rudd, the PM she deposed,
then went to the Ekka - Brisbane's show - where she was bailed up by former Labor leader
Mark Latham in his guise as a guest reporter for 60 Minutes.

ABBOTT - Was in Victoria in the bushfire-affected Kinglake, meeting firefighters in
the ultra marginal seat of MCEWEN, held by retiring Liberal MP Fran Bailey.



SUNDAY AUGUST 8

GILLARD - Campaigned with Labor MP Damian Hale in the marginal Darwin seat of SOLOMON.

Announced a no-school-no-sport policy while taking part in a game of hockey.

ABBOTT - Starred at the coalition's campaign launch in Brisbane. Attendees included
former PM John Howard. No big new promises were made, but team unity was highlighted.



MONDAY AUGUST 9

GILLARD - Campaigned in the marginal Liberal held seat of CANNING in Perth where a
Q&A session with students at a local school served as a warmup of her appearance on the
ABC program later that night, filmed in Adelaide.

ABBOTT - Visited the Ekka, checking out the horses, handing out sashes for winning
Jersey cows, and munching on a show special - the strawberry sundae. Later went to the
Labor seat of OXLEY to visit a homeowner who had dodgy insulation installed under the
pink batts program.



TUESDAY AUGUST 10

GILLARD - Visited her old Adelaide high school in the Liberal seat of BOOTHBY, before
opening a super GP clinic in Geelong, in the marginal Labor seat of CORANGAMITE held by
Darren Cheeseman. Later appeared on Ten's 7PM Project.

ABBOTT - Campaigned in Sydney where he announced more on asylum protection and spoke
at a fundraiser for his daughters' school, but left announcement of the party's broadband
policy to Andrew Robb and Tony Smith in Canberra. Appeared on The 7.30 Report, where he
admitted to not being a "tech-head".



WEDNESDAY AUGUST 11

GILLARD - Started the day in the marginal Liberal held seat of LA TROBE in Victoria,
then travelled to Sydney's western suburbs to announce funding for the Parramatta-Epping
rail link, which would benefit the key seats of PARRAMATTA, BENNELONG, LINDSAY, GREENWAY
and MACARTHUR.

ABBOTT - Launched his water policy on a very windswept Hindmarsh Island in the South
Australian seat of MAYO, held by the Liberals Jamie Briggs.

+ Both leaders took part - separately - in a town hall-style forum at the Rooty Hill
RSL in western Sydney. Abbott was considered to have performed the best.



THURSDAY AUGUST 12:

GILLARD - Officially launched the national broadband network in Hobart in the marginal
seat of DENISON. She then travelled to Launceston in the marginal, Labor-held seat of
BASS, before campaigning in Bill Shorten's Melbourne seat of MARIBYRNONG, then flying
to Sydney.

ABBOTT - Campaigned in Sydney, firstly visiting a school in the Liberal safe-seat of
BRADFIELD, then spoke at an event for veterans at Penrith RSL club with the Liberal candidates
for LINDSAY and GREENWAY. Was confronted by Latham for his 60 Minutes report.



FRIDAY AUGUST 13

GILLARD - In western Sydney again, making an apprentices announcement in the seat of
PARRAMATTA, before making a stump speech at a building site in Anthony Albanese's safe
seat of GRAYNDLER.

ABBOTT - Spent the day in Victoria, go-karting at a school in the outer-Melbourne seat
of DEAKIN, before making an announcement in the rural seat of CORANGAMITE, a marginal
held by Labor.



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