ABC broadcasts The Great Debate in the lead up to the 1993 Federal Election, featuring Prime Minister Paul Keating and Opposition Leader Dr John Hewson and moderated by Kerry O’Brien.

ABC also begins broadcasting 24 hours a day, seven days a week, with the expansion of overnight programming from Friday and Saturday nights to every night of the week.

Source: TV Week, 6 March 1993

	ABV2	HSV7	GTV9	ATV10	SBS28
6AM	Rage (cont’d)	6am Sing Me A Rainbow 6.30 Agro’s Sunday. Includes The Fearless Five, Kids Inc	6am Turn Round Australia 6.30 Mosaic	6am Sword Fish 6.30 Mass For You At Home
7AM		7.30 The New Adventures Of Winnie The Pooh	7am Guess What? 7.30 Look Who’s Talking	7am Kids’ Stuff. Includes Bobby’s World, Captain Zed And The Zee Zone, Mind Twist, Gophers
8AM	8am Couch Potato. Includes Inspector Gadget, Simon And The Witch 8.50 Johnson And Friends	8am Now You See It 8.30 The New Adventures Of Black Beauty	8am Business Sunday
9AM	9am Lawn Bowls: Qantas Jetabout International Final 1992 (Rpt)	9am Sportsworld	9am Sunday. Jim Waley	9am Video Hits	9am English At Work 9.30 Italian Soccer
10AM	10am Cycling: Austral Wheel Race				10.30 Soccer: The Road To Wembley
11AM	11am Looking For God 11.45 The Gospels		11am Wide World Of Sports Sunday Edition		11.30 The Best Of Anne’s International Kitchen
12PM	12pm Landline	12pm Water Skiing: Moomba Masters. Peter Landy, Ian Faulkner		12pm Basketball: Reebok Blacktop Three On Three Super Challenge	12pm Italia News 12.30 Greek News
1PM	1pm Review 1.30 Sunday Afternoon With Peter Ross		1pm Globe TV		1pm Soccer: FIFA/Coca-Cola World Youth Championship (Rpt)
2PM		2pm Football: AFL Foster’s Cup	2pm Movie: Gidget Goes To Rome. 1963 [IMDB]
3PM				3pm Twelve O’Clock High
4PM	4.55 Bookchat	4.30 Get Smart	4pm Sports Sunday. Ken Sutcliffe, Tony Greig	4pm The Love Boat
5PM	5.05 Pride And Prejudice	5.30 Dinosaurs		5pm Healthy Wealthy And Wise (Rpt)
6PM	6pm The Living Planet	6pm Seven Nightly News. Peter Mitchell 6.30 Talk To The Animals	6pm National Nine News. Peter Hitchener 6.30 Our World: Glenn Ridge’s Outback — Australia’s Hidden Valley	6pm Ten Eyewitness News 6.30 The Simpsons	6pm Positions Vacant 6.30 World News. Lee Lin Chin
7PM	7pm ABC News. Sue McIntosh 7.30 Special: The Great Debate. Kerry O’Brien	7.27 Scratch ‘N’ Spin 7.30 The Golden Palace	7.29 Keno 7.30 60 Minutes. Jennifer Byrne, Richard Carleton, Jeff McMullen, Charles Wooley	7pm The Wonder Years 7.30 Beverly Hills 90210	7pm Vox Populi. Rhoda Roberts 7.30 Brain Sex
8PM	8.25 ABC News 8.30 True Stories	8pm Nurses 8.30 Movie: We’re No Angels. 1989 [IMDB]	8.30 Movie: Toy Soldiers. 1991 [IMDB]	8.30 Movie: The Dream Team. 1989 [IMDB]	8.30 Soccer: FIFA/Coca-Cola World Youth Championship
9PM	9.30 The Camomile Lawn
10PM	10.25 Compass	10.45 Movie: Porky’s. 1982 [IMDB]	10.45 Newsbreak 10.50 Movie: Iron Eagle. 1986 [IMDB]	10.50 Ten Eyewitness News 10.55 Meet The Press	10.30 Soccer: FIFA/Coca-Cola World Youth Championship. Highlights
11PM	11.15 Capital City			11.25 Movie: Chiller. 1985 [IMDB]
12AM	12.05am Ripping Yarns 12.45 Australia Television International News	12.35am Today (NBC)			12am The Movie Show (Rpt) 12.30 Movie: The Good Father. 1986 [IMDB]
1AM	1.15 The Bill	1.35 Meet The Press (NBC)	1.10am Movie: Countdown To Looking Glass. 1984 [IMDB]	1.20am Gillette World Sports 1.30 Movie: The Telephone. 1987 [IMDB]
2AM	2.05 Movie: Life For Ruth. 1962 (B&W) [IMDB]	2.35 Movie: Van Nuys Blvd. 1979 [IMDB]			2am Close
3AM	3.35 Wings Over The World		3am Movie: Cancel My Reservation. 1972 [IMDB]	3.20 Movie: The Defective Detective. 1983 [IMDB]
4AM	4.30 Doctor Who	4.15 Movie: Star Fever. 1985 (Continues to 6am)
5AM	5am Open Learning (Continues to 6.30am)		5.30 The Sullivans (Continues to 6am)	5am National Geographic (Continues to 6am)