Leaders' debate

2022 - 4 - 20

Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese will face off in a leaders ... (SBS)

Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Opposition leader Anthony Albanese will face off in the first leaders' debate of the 2022 federal election campaign ...

In an Australian-first, SBS will live stream the debate in both Arabic and Mandarin, which can be viewed on. The event will be hosted by Sky News and The Courier-Mail. In an Australian-first, SBS will live stream the debate in both Arabic and Mandarin, which can be viewed on.

Federal election live: Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese go head ... (ABC News)

The first leaders' debate of the 2022 federal election campaign has arrived, with Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Labor leader Anthony Albanese going ...

When Harold MacMillan was asked what throws governments off course, he reportedly responded: "Events, dear boy. The truth is, they haven't learnt from their mistakes. The government's been in office for a decade. So we need a plan. Scott and I agree that Australia is the best country on earth. Rents are going through the roofs. We also need to address the rentral crisis. Some of the measures the government have done are terrific but we're missing out on bits too. What will the government do to help the nursing workforce? By Jessica Riga Now, Anthony is right about critical minerals and rare earths. By Jessica Riga

WATCH LIVE: Morrison and Albanese clash at The People's Forum ... (Sky News Australia)

Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Labor leader Anthony Albanese are going head-to-head in an "unscripted and unpredictable" debate in a bid to secure the ...

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Wednesday election briefing: leaders gear up for debate. Plus ... (The Guardian)

After spending the start of the election campaign well away from each other – indeed, on opposite coasts of the country this week – Scott Morrison and ...

Morrison, who has been setting a more energetic campaign pace than Albanese with several events a day, took a potshot at his opponent by saying on Wednesday “my approach is not to lock myself away in rooms before having these things”. Of course, nobody believes the PM is simply going to rock up and ad lib this debate on vibes alone. Considering only a few of these photos make their social media feeds, what do politicians do with all the selfies at the end of the day – do their media advisers go through the camera roll each evening, dumping off all the discarded selfies to free up memory space? Debate: But really the day’s politicking was a warm-up for Wednesday night’s Sky News “people’s forum”, the first public face-off between Morrison and Albanese. Held at the Gabba in Brisbane, 100 undecided voters will get a chance to ask questions of the leaders in a Q&A format. Were Whitlam and Menzies and Chifley out there signing autographs on the campaign hustings? The PM started in Adelaide, stopping in for a quick visit to the marginal seat of Boothby, which Labor wants to grab. The number of percentage points Albanese’s net approval dropped in the last week, according to the latest Guardian Essential poll. He also talked up the Coalition’s plans to double penalties for “thuggish” unions under the Building and Construction Commission. The foreign minister, Marise Payne, said she was “disappointed” at the deal but Australia respected the Solomons’ sovereignty. He took selfies with employees and railed against the Coalition’s revived industrial relations policies, which Labor claims could include changes to the Better Off Overall test (Boot). Considering how personal and snippy the campaign has been already, with still more than four weeks to election day, some real sparks could fly on Wednesday night. People still talk about Bill Shorten’s famous zinger at the 2019 debate, calling Morrison a “space invader” for getting too close to him on the stage. Treasurer Josh Frydenberg came under fire for ads featuring Guide Dogs Victoria’s CEO, which he later decided to pull from circulation; Morrison invoked “cancel” culture in defending Warringah candidate Katherine Deves; while comments were unearthed from another Liberal candidate describing far-right former senator Fraser Anning as a “god”.

The Informer: Leaders prepare for first debate as Solomon Island ... (The Inverell Times)

Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Labor leader Anthony Albanese will face off for the first time tonight at the Sky news-hosted leaders' debate in Brisbane.

Soofia joined the Canberra Times in 2022 as the cadet. Soofia joined the Canberra Times in 2022 as the cadet. She previously interned and was an audio producer at The Guardian Australia. She has also worked at 2SER Radio and City Hub Sydney. Her email is [email protected]

We fact checked key claims from the leaders' debate. Here's what ... (ABC News)

Questionable stats, misleading figures - and even a call that was on the money. RMIT ABC Fact Check examines claims from tonight's first leaders' debate.

Similarly, hearings relating to the law enforcement division would be held in public. The ABS has noted that its "automotive fuel series" was at a record level in the December quarter. Over the 12 months to December, the CPI rose 3.5 per cent while the WPI rose a slower 2.3 per cent. Fact Check has checked a claim from Mr Morrison on this topic before. He also called for the body to have the power to hold public hearings "if it deems that it is in the public interest". In the case of that claim, Fact Check found there was more to the story. In a previous investigation, Fact Check examined a claim made by Social Services Minister Anne Ruston that draft legislation for the government's Commonwealth Integrity Commission published in 2020 showed it would have "powers … well in excess of a royal commission". The first is a "law enforcement integrity division" that would have jurisdiction over certain federal law enforcement agencies, such as the federal police, as well as public sector agencies with investigative functions, like the Department of Home Affairs. As a quick refresher, Operation Sovereign Borders is "a military-led border security operation that was established in 2013" by the Coalition government for the purpose of "combating people smuggling in our region, and preventing people from risking their lives at sea". It shows that between June 2013, three months before the Coalition was elected, and June 2019, seven months before the pandemic, gross debt as a share of GDP grew by 65 per cent, and net debt by 85 per cent. As for economic management, Mr Morrison justified the level of government debt accrued under the Coalition by pointing to the economic damage wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic, which he claimed had dwarfed any crisis Labor had faced when last in office. One of the Opposition Leader’s opening contributions to the debate was a claim that was central to his budget reply speech: "the cost of everything is going up but your wages aren't."