The race to the 2025 Australian federal election is in its final days, with one last televised debate between the two leaders of the major parties.
Here is how you can watch the debate before Australians head to the polls on Saturday – or sooner if they join the rush to vote early.
Leaders’ debate on 7NEWS - Sunday 27 April at 8pm AEST
7NEWS will host the final leaders’ debate on Sunday 27 April.
The debate will kick off at 8pm and will broadcast on Seven’s free-to-air channel as well as on catch-up service 7plus. Viewers can also stream it on 7NEWS.com.au.
7NEWS’s political editor, Mark Riley, will moderate the debate, which will take place at Seven’s studios in Sydney.
What debates have happened so far?
There have been three leaders’ debates in 2025’s federal election season, hosted by Sky News, ABC and Nine respectively.
The first leaders’ debate between Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton was held on 8 April, with a treasurers’ debate between Jim Chalmers and Angus Taylor and an energy debate between Chris Bowen and Ted O’Brien that same week.
Neither Albanese nor Dutton made a major misstep in the Sky News forum held in western Sydney, where Albanese was voted the winner from a poll of 100 undecided voters – with 44 votes to Dutton’s 35 (21 were undecided).
The second debate, on the ABC, was held on 16 April, with the opposition leader responding, when asked if climate change fallout was getting worse, that he would “let scientists pass that judgment”. Dutton later clarified that he believed in climate change. Albanese denied claims his government had modelled the impact of any change to negative gearing, before later clarifying that the modelling did exist and that it wasn’t commissioned by his team. No winner was announced.
The third debate was held by Channel 9 on 22 April, with the most animated jousting coming when both leaders were invited to rebuff the “biggest lie” their opponent had pushed during the campaign – Dutton accusing Albanese of mounting a scare campaign over Medicare funding, while the prime minister accused him in return of “desperation”. The three Nine Entertainment journalists who questioned the leaders declared Dutton to have won “by a nose” (2-1).
