The final leaders' debate between Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Labor leader Anthony Albanese is about to kick off. Follow all the action on SBS News' live blog.
Moderator Mark Riley moves the debate on to the ‘teal independents’ - a group of high profile independent candidates running on climate change platforms in mostly Liberal seats.Can these high profile independents running in safe Liberal electorates live up to the hype?
He reiterates a call for “a strong national anti-corruption commission”, that he’s made throughout the election campaign. To those thinking about voting for independents, he says Australia “doesn't need a weak government that has to negotiate for its existence every single day … A vote for the independents may be well meaning, but it would be a vote to weaken or parliament and weaken Australia.”The next question is on asylum seeker policy, with Riley asking the prime minister to justify claims that boat arrivals would return under Labor.
"Anyone who comes by boat will not get any visa here in Australia, they won't be allowed to settle here in Australia. We have the same position on all of those issues." “We saw it yesterday and we saw it again today …This is a Labor leader who comes from the far left of the party and has been very loose, he is a loose unit when it comes to the economy. He makes things up as he goes along. The policies he comes up with he doesn't think through. He has got a housing policy where if you get a wage rise you've got to sell your house. He has got a health policy that he hasn't been able to cost. He says it's costed, but it's uncosted.
"The best way to keep downward pressure on rising interest rates, and we know that interest rates have risen 25 basis points, now they have gone up over 100 basis points in New Zealand and 90 in the UK, 75 in the United States and Canada. So we are seeing this all around the world and Australia has been performing better," Mr Morrison said.
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