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The Utah Republican Party wants a say in choosing topics and the moderators for next month’s GOP primary election debates for Congress.

The Greens have proposed a new independent commission following what they say was a farcical leaders’ debate between Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese this past weekend.

For 90 minutes the leaders of Ontario’s four top political parties traded gibes and tried to score their points.

The next federal election debates should have a simpler format and better moderation to focus more on what leaders say than what they are asked, says the commission that oversees the events.

The report, which provides an assessment of the Commission's 2021 federal election experience, puts forward 11 recommendations for improving and ensuring leaders' debates better serve the public interest.

The Leaders' Debates Commission (LDC) has now gained the lessons of two election cycles... The report that follows set outs what we have accomplished, what we have learned, and what can be built for the future.

Janice Folk-Dawson was “outraged” when she learned the Northern Ontario Leaders Debate held in North Bay Tuesday was charging $125 a head to attend.

The last six years should have taught us better; instead, it has benefited from and has fueled a well-oiled digital machine of lies and myths.

The second leaders’ debate of the election campaign, hosted by Channel Nine, attracted 641,000 viewers, however the network’s own employees have criticised the format as a “shambles”.

We’ve revisited five of the biggest clangers of the second debate to sort fact from fiction.

There were many big moments in the debate between Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Labor leader Anthony Albanese on Sunday night, but one key point highlighted the strategies likely to shape the final two weeks of the election campaign.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has rejected accusations that he and Anthony Albanese were disrespectful towards the moderator of their second election debate last night.