Uncertainty and pessimism abound. Will fear be enough to push Dutton into office?
- Written by Frank Bongiorno, Professor of History, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
Tony Abbott was once unelectable. So were Donald Trump and Boris Johnson.
And so was Peter Dutton, not so long ago. But opinion polls over much of 2024 and early 2025 indicated otherwise, and a nightly assault of pre-election political advertising – as my wife and I watched reruns of Law & Order: Criminal Intent – suggested that...
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