‘You can’t fatten a pig on market day,’ John Howard would say. As Australia’s longest-serving Liberal prime minister other than Sir Robert Menzies, the party’s founder, Howard’s words carry weight. Little wonder that Liberals are disconcerted that opposition leader Peter Dutton has tried to calm Coalition supporters who are worried about the party’s slip in the latest opinion polls by saying, ‘You haven’t seen anything yet.’
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