Miles and Crisafulli will face off in third debate

Four years after the state’s previous election, four weeks of official campaigning and just four days before the next statewide poll closes, the leaders of the two major parties met overnight for the last of three debates.

Both the Premier, Labor’s Stephen Miles, and LNP Opposition Leader David Crisafulli gave their standard opening and closing speeches to the audience at the People’s Forum organized by News Corp.

For more than an hour, the pair answered – or didn’t answer – questions from host Kieran Gilbert, each other and 100 undecided voters in a room chosen by a YouGov pollster about the issues they’ve faced in weeks of campaigning.

They covered transportation (50 cent tolls and major road projects), the Olympics, energy and cost of living. Helping koalas find housing and ways to combat domestic violence, including youth crime.

But abortion has attracted the most controversy.

Crisafulli returned to his oft-spoken phrase that “there will be no change in the abortion law”, without specifying how he could make this promise along with a previous vow to vote conscientiously for his MPs on such issues, as well as his personal opposition to the latter abortions at term.

The LNP leader answered yes to Miles’ yes or no question about whether he believed in a woman’s right to choose. (“Though it probably won’t work for his TikTok.”)

But after attempting – wrongly – to claim that Robbie Catter had abandoned his vow to force a vote of conscience to change or repeal the laws earlier in the day, the pair went ahead with it, with Crisafulli calling Miles’ questions “stupid”.

“It’s not stupid,” Miles joked.

“Your campaign was stupid because we excluded it,” Crisafulli responded.

Voters will render their verdict on the campaign, attitudes and achievements of both men and their teams by 6pm on Saturday.

Of those in attendance last night, 39 percent named Miles the winner, while 35 percent gave the win to Crisafulli. The rest remains uncertain.