All the TV stations are playing a leaders debate tonight, at 6:30 - on their secondary channels. Nice to see they take it seriously.

Judging by the terms of the debate, it will be an anodyne event, made up of reporters and a respectful audience of party apparatchiks.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/159479097/...s-Debate-Rules

Still, you never know, something interesting might be shown ... by mistake.

ahhhh gutted, working tonight and the free to air channels sound feed is bust again....

No problem, it's also on Sky News .....

Greens leader Christine Milne's request to be included in the debate has knocked back.

Who?

Won't watch as everytime I see KR's face on TV I want to put my fist through the screen.

Basically it seems like Abbott is losing it. Even with the lightweight reporters on the questions, he'd not landing good points and is getting called on the waffle. Their worm turns down when he starts talking.

Rudd is saying "GST, GST, GST"

Abbot doesn't have to win it. He just has to not make to many mistakes. Every time Rudd appears on TV to lecture the audience a few more thousand people remember how bad he was the last time.

Funny that. because from where I was sitting it looked more like KRudd was the loser of this round. I was especially shocked that he refused to accept responsibility for dismantling the Pacific Solution, choosing instead to blame the voters for it. I wonder if there'll be any fallout from that slip of his mask?

So true.

...the reason he doesn't want proper debates.

This thread is a 'suppository of knowledge'.

Abbott's been making an arse of himself again....

Could you really trust a man who doesn't know the difference between a repository and a suppository?

not if he's your doctor...

now you're getting all anal about it