The Age printed 80% Abbott & the rest to Rudd & undecided. Rudd was rude aggressive & in your face from the minute it started & then scurried off at the end but Abbott stayed for questions, was mobbed & applauded when he left.

We saw the arrogance of Rudd like we saw every day in parliament, the back turning, the arrogant slouch at the box & the total ignoring of any speaker from the other side.

Rudd talked & talked &  talked but it was all rhetoric, he never said anything, no policy & no costings for the massive ndis,gonski & NBN and all the other promised goodies only in the forward estimates all on the never never.

He was on the 70 billion black hole again when he knows that's a lie. He had no record to stand on the public know it & they also know what record he did have ended in a fiasco. The last 3 years of Gillard never mentioned at all.

He came across as desperate, waffled & talked over Abbott at every turn.

The consensus is Abbott won on all points by nearly all commentators.

Just stated on Sunrise that the people using stop-watches at the debate to time the speaking-time for both men have verified that Rudd spoke a whole minute and a half longer than Abbott!   I think Abbott is so used to monopolising conversations that he doesn't understand sharing the stage, and in any case he never answers a question, he goes off on a tangent, and soon just starts critisising something the government did 6 years ago.  TA outburts shows why they try to keep him on a short leash.