Election Diary: there were a couple of ‘moments’ in second Albanese-Dutton encounter

By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

Two “moments” stuck out in Wednesday’s leaders’ debate, the second head-to-head of the campaign.

Peter Dutton cut his losses over his faux pas this week when he wrongly named Indonesian president Prabowo Subianto as having said there had been a Russian approach to base aircraft in Papua.

So that was a mistake, ABC moderator David Speers asked. “It was a mistake.”

The other “moment” was in a discussion about negative gearing, when Anthony Albanese denied the government had sought modelling on that. The public service “certainly wasn’t commissioned by us to do…

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