Labor confirms actors used in attack ads Prime Minister Kevin Rudd does have a habit of wanting things to go left... PAID actors are playing real people in Labor attack ads, but some real-life lawn bowlers missed their chance at fame when ring-ins were found for a media opportunity. About 40 people were employed to play real people in Labor's spotlight ad unveiled today. Mr Rudd talked about the impact of Coalition policy on "real people's lives" in East Lismore, but the actors employed by Labor include a baby, a child in a school uniform, a man in a firefighter's uniform, a woman dressed as a low-income worker and a man in a wheelchair. A scene from one of Labor's ads. The ad shows lights going off them as a voice over listed what Labor says they would lose under an Abbott government. Visiting a Medicare Local, which Mr Rudd said would be scrapped by the Coalition, he said he "made no apology" for the advertisement, despite promising a kinder politics and a positive campaign. The new ads coincide with Labor's plunge in Newspoll to primary support of 34 points. "They are policy based," Mr Rudd said before claiming Tony Abbott had a plan to "slash, cut and burn." A spokesman from Labor's campaign headquarters in Melbourne said: "I can confirm the people in the ads are actors." After leaving Lismore, Mr Rudd visited the bowling club in Condong, a tiny town located on the banks of the Tweed River. Kevin Rudd gives bowls a go at the Condong Bowls Club in Northern New South Wales. The visit was highly anticipated among the locals, until they realised no local bowlers would be used in the bowling demonstration before the media. Instead, three bowlers from other clubs were asked to assist Mr Rudd. Ex- Condong Bowling Club chairman Tom Kennedy said the bowlers had been arranged by the party. "I'm a Labor voter, but I was a little bit disgusted what happened today," he told News Corp Australia. They had a photo shoot and used a bowler from Cudgen and two from Kingscliffe. I felt this was an insult to our bowlers. Mr Kennedy made his grievances known to Cudgen bowler John Neal, who had been part of the demonstration. The pair exchanged words before Mr Neal pulled out his ALP membership, stating he had been invited to come down to bowl by the party. "I'm a member of Labor Party and they asked me to come," he said. Mr Rudd announced $50 million for stroke treatment co-ordinators and $20 million for an active ageing program for clubs such as the one at Condong to run courses for elderly members. After the bad polling was revealed yesterday morning he said he would "fight in this election right to the end." He was due to arrive in Brisbane tonight.