That’s all from the Need to Know blog for tonight. We’ll leave you with some of the main points from the debate.

-- Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese have tangled over the security deal between the Solomon Islands and China, with the PM accusing Labor of misrepresenting the developments around the security deal today and asking why they would side with China. Albanese has described the deal as due to a stuff-up on the prime minister’s part.

-- On flooding, Anthony Albanese said the government has used the $4 billion emergency response fund established by Labor as a ‘term deposit’ rather than disbursing the money regularly. Morrison said the federal government is stumping up 70 per cent of the $2.5 billion in state and federal funds allocated to flood recovery.

-- Neither leader would make an explicit commitment to budget repair. The PM pointed to the $100 billion turnaround in the budget bottom line and Australia’s debt level is about one-third of the debt level of other developed countries. Anthony Albanese said the government’s response to the pandemic was wasteful and points to the Coalition’s spending on the NBN and taxpayer advertising “promoting themselves”.