Dancing around like a blue-arse fly, 21 seats behind, changing his pitch to voters weekly from ‘atomic energy for Australia’ to ‘whatever it takes’ – can our current opposition leader Peter Dutton win the next election?
The answer is ‘yes’ – he is prepared to do anything for his once-only chance! And in all reality all he needs to achieve it is to win one more lower house seat than Anthony Albanese in the coming election and as Labor is going down the voter ‘sink hole’ how hard is that?
Neither the Liberal/National coalition nor Labor are going to have enough seats to govern this time, in their own right. And the Greens have to slug it out in quite a few tough inner-city seats to become the real force they hope to be. Meanwhile Dutton could gain executive government with the help of Bob Katter, the member for Kennedy, herding enough of the teal independents, whose numbers will grow, into the Dutton camp at some significant political cost to Dutton naturally.
But that’s politics!,
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