Kevin Rudd spent most of Sunday on a farm on the outskirts of Melbourne, in the Liberal seat of McEwan - held by a margin of 6.4%.
Rudd announced that 400 of Labor's promised 1,000 new nursing training spots would be delivered to regional universities. He then offered the networks some unique evening news footage, as he walked behind a trailer, feeding bread to starving sheep and cows.
Later in the evening, Rudd made a televised appearance on the Ten's Rove Live in a pitch for the youth vote.
He became the first Australian political leader to brave the program, and weaved through questions about bar fights with John Howard, his nerdishness, and the trademark, "Who would you turn gay for?"
He knocked back host Rove McMannus' suggestions of Kel from the Kath and Kim program and Dame Edna, before declaring that his wife Therese was the only one he would turn gay for.
MacManus pounced: "Is she a man?"
Rudd was also given the opportunity to explain his highly-publicised ear-wax incident. Asked what it tasted like, he said "I was just scratching my lip."
Greens leader Bob Brown also made a brief appearance on the program.