Australia

The second leaders’ debate of the election campaign, hosted by Channel Nine, attracted 641,000 viewers, however the network’s own employees have criticised the format as a “shambles”.

We’ve revisited five of the biggest clangers of the second debate to sort fact from fiction.

There were many big moments in the debate between Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Labor leader Anthony Albanese on Sunday night, but one key point highlighted the strategies likely to shape the final two weeks of the election campaign.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has rejected accusations that he and Anthony Albanese were disrespectful towards the moderator of their second election debate last night.

Anthony Albanese and Scott Morrison will go head to head in a second leaders’ debate less than a fortnight out from the federal election, the Nine network has announced.

Albanese needs to agree to further debates as soon as possible to make his case for change, to put his policies and ideas under the spotlight of public scrutiny.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has agreed to a second election debate with Anthony Albanese in a move that challenges the Labor leader to commit to the free-to-air forum to be broadcast in prime time on Sunday, May 8.

Scott Morrison has contrasted his “busy” schedule while isolating with Covid earlier this year with Anthony Albanese’s “quiet” week at home during the campaign, while pushing for two commercial TV election debates next week.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison says Labor is standing in the way of an independent election debate body being set up.

Australia’s opposition leader said he tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday in the second week of a campaign ahead of the May 21 election.

The ABC invites leaders of the main political parties to take part in a debate every Federal election and 2022 is no exception.

The first leaders’ debate between Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese reached more than 400,000 viewers across the country and delivered Sky News its best ratings result in three years.