With the latest polls placing the government 13 points behind Labour, and with only a week left in the federal election campaign, Prime Minister Fraser set out today to peg back Bob Hawke.
National Nine News top political commentators were with the two leaders today to see how they fared.
And in Nine News at 6, a report on a threatening cyclone, an RWF mercy flight from New Guinea,
excited and angry preparations for a royal visit to California, and the death of a giant of the theatre playwright Tennessee Williams.
These stories and more on National Nine News at 6.