Federal election leaders' debate

Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese go head-to-head in the second leaders' debate as the federal election campaign enters ...

Albanese: "The difference between myself and the current government and Scott Morrison is that we will try to do what we can in measures and structures to improve real wages. And what Scott did not tell you about the AAA credit rating was that it was achieved under the former Labor government, we were the government that achieve that and it has been maintained but the truth is, there is an enormous amount of waste and reports in this budget." They are not doing that out of choice, they are doing that out of choice, they are doing that to try to get by and that is why one of the things we need to do is to address wages. Albanese: "It's true to say that young Australians are finding it more and more difficult to get access to the great dream of home ownership. We need to make sure that Australians can have faith in it and that is why we need to do whatever we can to create institutions and structures that enhance that faith in our political system." I brought my party together, brought by coalition together, brought by coalition together by getting to net zero by 2050, that is something that took a lot of leadership to bring my party together in the unity." but is interrupted by Uhlmann to clarify that wages will rise faster than inflation - i.e. will rise quicker than the cost of living. We have an economy that is growing faster than the advanced economies of the world and lowest… Morrison: "From time to time, I will disagree with people and they won't agree with the position I am taking, whether deciding to put the national interest first and not by the French submarines. The cabinet has to decide whether there can be an investigation so a minister comes before you about something like Leppington Triangle or some of the other rights and scandals and they get to decide whether an independent integrity commission, we will have legislation this year if we are elected." We made sure we were manufacturing vaccines in Australia with the AstraZeneca vaccine, and we ensure that when we have the setbacks, I put in place the director-general to do this under a military command, to ensure we got the vaccination program back on track. And what we achieved is, we ensure that everyone who wanted a vaccine could have one in the middle of October. That was only two weeks out from the original deadline that we set ourselves at the start of the year.