The MP for Moore Ian Goodenough had earlier told The Guardian that he and Mr Hastie had a brief meeting with Mr Erikson at the rally at Forrest Chase in Perth in April 2018.

"He came up and there was a conversation," Mr Goodenough said.

"It was a very brief meeting from what I saw, two to three minutes."

But Mr Hastie, the MP for Canning and chair of the parliament's intelligence and security committee, has denied having met Mr Erikson, telling reporters on Tuesday: "I don't answer defamatory questions and I won't get involved."

He later added in a written statement: "I have never sought to nor agreed to meet with Mr Erikson.

News.com.au has learned that Mr Morrison was hitting the phones almost every night in the final month of the campaign, speaking directly to voters to hear their thoughts and spruik his party’s policies.

The calls, which were made to people in the electorate where he was campaigning that day, began as robo calls to a few thousand people, but told listeners to hang on as Mr Morrison was shortly going to jump on the line personally.

And jump on he did — speaking directly to people listening on the call — often thousands at a time. As well as outlining key details of Coalition policy adapted to that particular area, Mr Morrison also answered questions submitted during the process.

As the campaign drew to a close, Mr Morrison was sometimes doing two or three of these calls a night — working long after the day’s official proceedings had wound down.

The sheer effort and time involved in these calls shows how determined Mr Morrison was to reach as many people as possible.Conversely, Mr Shorten’s didn’t do many public events in the last week except for aquick visit to Rhodes railway station in Sydney to hand out how-to-vote cards and a short stop at a Chinese restaurant in Burwood to make some dumplings.

Diners at the Chinese restaurant were more enthusiastic but Mr Shorten only met a handful of people, and most were already Labor voters.

Apart from one day when Mr Shorten crisscrossed the country from Tasmania, to South Australia and Western Australia, the pace during the last week seemed sluggish.https://www.news.com.au/news/scott-morrison-worked-phones-almost-every-night-in-final-weeks-of-campaign-while-labor-ran-out-of-steam/news-story/69163d8cbef85410389c341c6f0cc512