BREAKING: Anthony Albanese has defeated Scott Morrison in the second #LeadersDebate. While Channel 9's voting website did not work for the duration of the debate, it was a very clear victory for Albo. Morrison was shaken from the start, likely after seeing tonight's polls.
There will be one more leaders' debate before the election. Albanese has won two out of two so far.
Channel 9 audience 'Preferred PM' result:
Albo: 49%
Scott: 45%
Undecided: 6%
(Note: the voting website broke down for most of the debate).
Channel 9 audience 'Who do you think will win' result:
ALP: 46%
L-NP: 39%
Hung parliament: 15%
(Note: the voting website broke down for most of the debate).
Channel 9 audience 'Who do you think won the debate' result:
Morrison: 52%
Albanese: 48%
(Note: the voting website broke down for most of the debate).
Channel 9 says just 19,000 of their viewers got through on that final poll (vs. 50,000 on the first), so the vote is about as reliable as a dartboard.
UPDATE #1:
Channel 9 audience 'Who do you think won the debate' result:
Morrison: 49%
Albanese: 51%
(Note: the voting website broke down for most of the debate).
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Scott Morrison won the coin toss, he goes first. He's on script, been told to not get nasty (but he will, later). He's rattling off on the economy, but that just sounds silly now given all the alarms going off on the economy following his sloppy work. He's stumbling a bit.
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Morrison won the coin toss, he's talking about resilience and glossing over his record. Already told a lie about the economy in the first 15 seconds. He's a little nervous and quite wooden, which is understandable, he's under a lot of pressure.
Now to Albo, he's a bit more at ease than Morrison, talks about need for costs to come down and wages to go up. Recognises the economy needs to improve and Australia needs to pick up manufacturing again. We must do better and we can do better. Says an ICAC is needed. Good start.
LABOR has secured support from coalition MPs to amend Scott Morrison's contentious religious discrimination bill. If Labor's amendments are successful, trans children will be protected under the law. Some things for you to consider 👇
Amending the laws makes them unappealing to fundamentalists who say they want Morrison to withdraw it if it doesn't pass in its original form. Protecting LGBTIQ youth must always come before protecting the entitlement of others to harm them. Labor won't negotiate on this.
If the bill doesn't pass and becomes an election issue, it will absolutely change the goal posts. Labor is streets ahead because Morrison and his track record are the election issue. The bill has the power to obscure that and distract. It's in Morrison's interests for it to fail.
Inside, Scott Morrison glosses over his failures, plays down criticism and shrugs it off. The more he speaks the worse it gets outside as they listen over a PA. They yell 'the virus isn't real' and express anger and scorn when he mentions the vaccine. Idiots inside and outside.
Scott Morrison refers to RATs that don't exist as a measure of his personal success. Either he knows he's lying or he genuinely believes they exist. Either way, nobody can reliably access RATs but he doesn't want to recognise that. He now says we're leading the world.
QANON CULT: A speaker at the #ConvoyToCanberra crowd outside Parliament House has told the fervent crowd “the storm is coming” and they're “here to fight pedophiles as society has been infiltrated by the Devil” and they'll “win because God is on [their] side”. #QAnonCult
Another speaker tells the cheering crowd “we've got a lost Parliament up here we've got to get rid of” after calling for “peace, love and civil disobedience.”
Another speaker tells the crowd Australia is the oldest, flattest and most diverse place in this nation (🤔). She says she's a representative of the Landscape Science Institute and it's her mission to “rehydrate our nation.”
One of the far-right myths doing the rounds is that it was an innocent smoking ceremony and police fired tear gas towards it. As you can see in the photos below, taken after security cameras were painted over, that is 100% debunked. It's the second fire of its kind this month.
Far-right group Millions March Against Mandatory Vaccines has claimed responsibility for the event. Live streamers broadcast the arson attack, which will make police work easier.
And of course Channel 9 have covered the story with its signature menacing incompetence. Painted the whole thing as a peaceful smoking ceremony which accidentally got out of hand. A slap in the face to the indigenous community who are being exploited by these far-right grubs.