LIVE: Election 2025 – Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton set to battle it out in the ABC’s leaders’ debate

The Opposition Leader is under immense pressure to pull something remarkable out of the bag.

He trails Anthony Albanese in the polls, with an exclusive Ipsos poll commissioned for Daily Mail Australia revealing that Mr Dutton’s personal approval ratings have collapsed during the election campaign to the lowest level recorded by any opposition leader over the past 20 years.

Despite conservative pundits praising the Opposition Leader’s performance in the last debate, the independent audience of 100 undecided voters judged Mr Albanese the winner, with 44 preferring the prime minister’s pitch over 35 for Mr Dutton.

Read more about his concerning poll numbers below:

A gaggle of protesters awaited both leaders outside the ABC’s new Parramatta studios (pictured below).

Multiple Palestine flags were seen as wel as a sign that red ‘Albo & Dutton! Stop the genocide!’

Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton were put on the spot by a grandmother’s question about immigration and the housing crisis in the first leaders’ debate last week.

They fielded a number of tough questions from the crowd but it was 74-year-old grandmother Janine who left the pair stunned.