Dunkley byelection a poor result for Peter Dutton’s pitch for the outer suburbs
- Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
The government’s easy retention of the Melbourne seat of Dunkley at Saturday’s byelection is a poor result for Peter Dutton. The two-party swing against the government is modest – 4% (soon after 10 pm).
This swing is in the conventional range of byelection swings – although there are multiple measures of those swings, and...
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