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Peter Dutton
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The health debate continues on Croakey
Kudos to Nicola Roxon for observing a couple of hard truths at yesterday’s health debate with Peter Dutton. However, she also appeared to rank action on obesity as a lower priority than tobacco and alcohol and that doesn’t cut it. Croakey diagnoses (and continues) the debate.
Milne: Gloves off, this is a dirty campaign
The attacks on Peter Dutton and his BHP shares show what a grubby election campaign this is going to be, writes Glenn Milne, as he fights fire with fire and delves into Wayne Swan’s share portfolio.
Roxon rocks on and gives Health a genuine feel
Nicola Roxon may be an economically illiterate Labor hack, but she knows how to answer interview questions and stick to her talking points, which is more than can be said for Peter Dutton.
How Twitter stole the federal election
The Kevin07 election may have been the Youtube/Facebook election, but this year’s federal election is shaping up to be “twitterised”. But some pollies — looking at you TonyAbbottMHR — need to up their Twitter game.
Political snippets: Now for the pictures, a climate change strategy, dud forecasts
The Liberals have finally got the shadow health minister talking about health, how Abbott can go green, some lessons in truth from the SMH, and more from the mind of Richard Farmer.
Libs search for their dreamtime martyrs
There are two big issues surrounding the question of Liberal Party leadership: whether Malcolm Turnbull will quit, and by how much Joe Hockey would beat Tony Abbott.
Dutton chows down some humble pie
Lib frontbencher Peter Dutton has returned, tail between his legs, to announce he will stand again for his Brisbane seat of Dickson, just weeks after missing out for preselection in a safer seat.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: The return of Daryl Somers?
Could Daryl Somers be returning home to Nine? What’s Peter Dutton doing in the new seat of Wright? Is the RACV Board in breach of their Articles of Association? Crikey’s tipsters have all the hot tips.
Queensland Libs strike a blow for incompetence
The Peter Dutton fiasco is evidence of many things — silliness most of all. But it is also the bitter fruit of the Liberals having chosen short-term expediency over long-term considerations, writes Norman Abjorensen.
Dutton has nobody to blame but … Dutton
The real villain of the piece in Peter Dutton’s failed attempt to move to McPherson is … Peter Dutton himself. His efforts to argue against the redistribution of his electorate were purely token.
Who dudded Dutton?
Was Peter Dutton’s preselection loss the result of a vindictive Nats agenda? Or, an attack on Malcolm Turnbull’s leadership? The real political plot is in the minds of News Ltd journos, writes Bernard Keane.
Laying some Peter Dutton myths to rest
Peter Dutton is no great loss to the Liberal Party, and he wasn’t blocked by the Nats in McPherson. Apart from that, everything you’ve read about his preselection failure is true…
Grattan: Turnbull to keep Dutton safe
Malcolm Turnbull has come out declaring that McPherson’s preselection loser Peter Dutton “must” remain in the House of Reps. It’s further woes for Turnbull, already weary from the ETS fight, writes Michelle Grattan.
Bartlett: Libs’ low hopes tangled in Dutton
One of Malcolm Turnbull’s golden hopes for the Liberal party, Peter Dutton, has failed to win preselection for McPherson. Turnbull is testing his authority with his demands on QLD pollies, says Andrew Bartlett.
Milne: LNP kicks Turnbull while he’s down
A split with the Liberal National Party now seems inevitable. Why? Because the Nationals refused to let Peter Dutton be the senior QLD Coalition member, a kick in the face to Malcolm Turnbull. Glenn Milne explains.
Dutton deserved to lose
While Peter Dutton is blaming his preselection ballot loss on not being a male or local, it helps to remember that Dutton hasn’t been the most perfect of MPs, even walking out of the Sorry speech, writes Mac.
Constituents not happy about Dutton dumping Dickson
Last week a disgruntled LNP member from Peter Dutton’s seat of Dickson wrote to Crikey venting their spleen at Dutton’s decision to abandon the seat for Margaret May’s seat of McPherson.
Tips and rumours: The Maldives are sinking too
A Crikey tipster says today: Oxfam AND Crikey have forgotten the Maldives, whose president recently announced he was looking to evacuate his entire 350,000 people to either Sri Lanka or Indonesia.
Liberal Party boofheads
The cause of the Liberal Party’s woe isn’t Kevin Rudd or the ALP or a bribed electorate refusing to realise their mistake — it’s the members and representatives of the Liberal Party itself.
The Crikey Pet Register
The Crikey Political Pet Register has the democratic denizens of the ACT agog and a dog with the knowledge that we will soon know everything there is to know about our pollies and their beloved pets.
The Liberals get lucky as the counting continues
Eight seats remain on the Electoral Commission’s close seats list and although the parties regard the contest as over it’s amazing to see how lucky the Liberals have been, writes Christian Kerr.
