Scott Morrison 'misspeaks' on JobSeeker rate, won't reveal stance on deal with independents

The Prime Minister also said he misspoke when he underquoted the JobSeeker rate.

In his first full day of campaigning in the key battleground state of Western Australia, Mr Morrison reignited his attacks on a group of climate-focused independents who polls show could hold the balance of power in a hung parliament.

He warned the group, targeting seats held by moderate Liberals, had not disclosed where they stood on major issues like the economy.

But with a minority government an increasingly likely proposition, the Prime Minister would not be drawn on whether he would strike a deal with them if they held the balance of power.

Mr Morrison said he was solely focused on gaining a majority.

"You don't know what you're going to get," he said.

"You don't know who they're going to support, who they're not going to support.

"You don't know what their policies are. They're not costing."

Liberal MPs Dave Sharma, Tim Wilson and Trent Zimmerman are facing stiff competition from independent candidates focusing on climate action and government integrity, but Mr Morrison insisted he expected each of them to be returned at the May 21 poll.

Attorney-General Michaelia Cash was present alongside Mr Morrison on Monday, the first time she had appeared with him since he faced a tough grilling over the government's failure to keep its election promise to implement a federal anti-corruption watchdog.

Senator Cash did not take a question during their joint appearance.

The failure is a sticking point for the Coalition, with "teal" independents targeting inner-city seats where voters cite corruption and climate inaction as key issues.

And in WA, where Labor has designs on a handful of seats, Senator Cash's predecessor as attorney-general, Christian Porter, refused to reveal who was behind a blind trust used to fund his defamation suit against the ABC.

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Labor leader Anthony Albanese announced during the weekend that if elected Labor would deliver on a federal anti-corruption watchdog by the end of 2022.

The Prime Minister was in Fremantle to announce the government had invested $124 million to purchase two new patrol boats to be built at the facility he was touring.

The Prime Minister was also forced to walk back comments made earlier in the day, when he appeared to drastically underquote the JobSeeker rate.

After mocking Mr Albanese as "not wrong by a little bit, he was wrong by [gesturing widely] this much" on the unemployment rate, Mr Morrison opened himself to the same criticism with a similarly off-the-mark attempt at the JobSeeker rate.

"As you know, we increased [JobSeeker] from 40 bucks a week to $46 a week since the last election," Mr Morrison told reporters while campaigning in Fremantle on Monday morning.

The rate of JobSeeker is $46 per day, or $322 per week.

Announcing a $1.6 million upgrade for a BMX park in the seat of Pearce, formerly held by Mr Porter, Mr Morrison dismissed a media furore on the issue.

"I misspoke," he said, before giving the correct figure.