Independent MP Monique Ryan, who is fighting to retain her seat of Kooyong against the Liberal party is speaking to ABC News Breakfast and gave her opinion on last night’s debate:

I was definitely up taking notes. Look, I thought a bit concerning. Looking – the media people seemed to say it was pretty boring and no-one scored any points but I thought there was some interesting and important things that came out of it. For me, the Leader of the Opposition saying he wouldn’t commit the existence or the reality of climate change is…

Host: I think he’d leave it to the scientists to make that assessment.

Ryan:

Don’t you think he should have had opinion on that as the Leader of the Opposition of the country and a potential Prime Minister? I think it’s a pretty important point. But I also felt that it was a bit concerning that neither of the leaders was able to take a position on AUKUS and the fact that many people in electorates like mine are expressing concerns about our relationship with the US at the moment.

There’s uncertainty around it from an economic and defence point of view. People are saying that they want us to look at that relationship a bit more critically.

Neither the political leaders parties were willing to do that which I think – is an ongoing source of concern within my community.