John Howard remained in his own marginal seat of Bennelong for a second day, using the stop to announce new measures in the Coaltion's fight against drugs.
He announced that people convicted of drug related offenses - dealers and users - would have their welfare quarantined for one year, with room for extensions in some circumstances. The policy was delivered in front of a new, red "Don't risk our economy with Labor" banner, replacing the former, blue "Go for Growth".
The PM said that the welfare plan would affect around 6,000 Australians, and that their capacity to meet living expenses would be protected.
"It's not right that people should have control of taxpayer money when they have been convicted of such offences," he said.
“Governments must communicate unconditional hostility towards illicit drugs and in the eleven years that I have been Prime Minster I have done that.”
Howard later travelled to Riverside Girls School in Gladesville, where he told a Korean congregation that the influence of Christinaity sits more "comfortably" with Coalition values.
"I'm not suggesting that God is either Liberal or Labor," he said.
"He is neither.
"But I am suggesting that the influence of Christianity in such policies as families, individual responsibility ... personal choice and free enterprise sit very comfortably with the values of my party."
The PM travelled to Perth later in the evening.