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How to watch Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese live on Wednesday night

Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese will go head-to-head for a third and final time before the election. Here’s how to watch tomorrow’s debate.

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Anthony Albanese and Scott Morrison will lock horns in a third debate tonight, the final public discussion between the pair before Australia heads to the polls.

Channel 7’s Mark Riley will moderate the debate, which is scheduled for Wednesday night at 9.10pm AEST.

Viewers can watch the debate live on Seven, or stream it on 7Plus.

Seven news director Craig McPherson describe the upcoming debate as “the most crucial hour of this campaign for both leaders” and said there was no better moderator than Riley.

“Mark has been with the leaders on the road since the campaign started. He is across all the key issues voters want answers to and with his encyclopaedic knowledge, it is sure to be a true test just 10 days out from when Australia votes for who will be our next leader,” he said.

The party leaders will lock horns again on Wednesday night.
The party leaders will lock horns again on Wednesday night.

The final debate of the campaign comes only three days after the leaders’ second clash, hosted by Channel 9, was plagued by controversy.

Riley’s performance as moderator is likely to draw comparison with 60 Minutes reporter Sarah Abo, who both leaders were accused of disrespecting during Sunday night’s debate.

As well as losing control of the Prime Minister and Opposition Leader towards the end of the debate, Abo was charged with communicating the shamboic results of Nine’s online poll to frustrated viewers.

Citing a poll of 19,000 viewers conducted over Nine’s website, Abo initially declared Mr Morrison the winner of the second debate, scoring 52 per cent of the vote, with 48 per cent backing Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese’s performance.

The panel discussed the results, which they described as “not surprising” while referring to Mr Morrison’s “superiority” as a debater, before minutes later the results shifted.

With 30,000 votes counted Mr Albanese was granted a short-lived victory in the debate, before it was declared a tie before the broadcast was brought to an abrupt end.

Aussies will get one last look at the pair together before hitting the polls.
Aussies will get one last look at the pair together before hitting the polls.

“This election is a choice,” Mr Morrison said at the close of the second debate.

The PM promised “investing in the better roads, and ensuring the essential services you can rely on”.

“Labor have no plan, they are unknown, and … I think over the course of this campaign, as they have put forward what they have been talking about, Australians have been seeing and asking the question, ‘Are they really up to this?’, and ‘Is Mr Albanese really up to this?’”

Mr Albanese's closing statement promised he will never utter four words.

“There are four words you will never hear from me – ‘That's not my job.’ I will never say it. If I get the job, I will do the job each and every day,” he said.

He said Australians have a choice to “change the country for the better”.

“And we can do so much better than we are doing right now. There are real issues right now. Childcare costs are spiralling right now. Aged care is in crisis right now. Work has never been more insecure than it is right now. Climate change is an opportunity, not just a challenge, right now.

“I believe Australia is the greatest country on earth. But with a better government, we can be an even better country into the future.”

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