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Flat White

Dutton is crowned – now where’s the mop for the wets?

30 May 2022

5:51 PM

30 May 2022

5:51 PM

Former Minister for Defence Peter Dutton has been elected to the Liberal leadership unopposed. Finally.

He was the man Australian conservatives wanted to see crowned all the way back in the Liberal leadership spill of 2018, when public pressure and a monsoon of failed opinion polls heralded the demise of Malcolm ‘I tried to join the Labor Party first’ Turnbull.

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