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Mortgage Mud

Anthony Albanese and Scott Morrison fight in a backyard. Two people watch from a makeshift shelter waiting to ask about the mortgage crisis.

Three leaders’ debates were held during the election campaign, airing across the commercial television channels. Overall, the viewer verdicts on each debate were quite close. Albanese was thought to have won the first and third debates, and the second came in as a tie. Cartoonists overwhelmingly depicted the debates as muddy and messy affairs that failed to address the real issues affecting the electorate.