Federal Election 2013 Live: August 28, 2013

One last thing - because this is a brilliant bipartisan end to the evening.

 

 

That was the last time Rudd and Abbott will face up before the election next week. We have one and a half weeks left of the campaign. Was the debate pivotal? Would it have shifted any votes? Do all pretty lil-lady-lawyers reside on the north shore?

So many questions.

Come back tomorrow - Steph will be back in Blogistan to host you through your political Thursday.

Good night.

Here is the take of the Age's Political editor, Michael Gordon, on the debate.

So the audience gave the debate to Rudd. He got 45 audiences votes, Abbott got 38 and 19 were undecided.

Chris Pyne, says "Well obviously Tony Abbott won the debate...."

Umm, Chris?

 

 

There was not a single question on asylum seekers, which is always cited as a big issue in the west of Sydney. The exit-poll results of the undecided voters will be in soon...we await the RootyRoom verdict.

I enjoyed this response to Ian's "Pretty-lil-lady-lawyer" question:

 

 

Just looking at the Twitter reaction to the debate. Amazingly, someone has already cut a video of Ian the truckie asking Tony Abbott why the forklift driver from Rooty Hill should pay for the pretty little lady-lawyer on the north shore when she wants to have a kid.

[He did then agree that it was a good scheme]

I quite liked Ian. He gave us the kind of plain-talking the National Press Club could never offer.

I really hope this woman did this for a dare.

ELECTION 2013: Nada Makdessi requests for a photo after the People's forum with Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Opposition Leader Tony Abbott at the Rooty Hill RSL in Western Sydney, on Wednesday 28 August 2013. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

Here we have a double-selfie including both leaders in the one frame. I believe this lady has just invented a new genre of selfie. She should probably be punished.

Nada Makdessi requested a selfie with Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Opposition Leader Tony Abbott at the conclusion of the People's Forum at the Rooty Hill RSL in Sydney on Wednesday 28 August 2013. Election 2013.Credit: Andrew Meares

And here we see the RootyRoom in all its magnificence.

 

ELECTION 2013: People's forum with Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Opposition Leader Tony Abbott at the Rooty Hill RSL in Western Sydney, on Wednesday 28 August 2013. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen