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Dutton will wage ungentlemanly warfare on national security

Abbott, Turnbull and Morrison all ultimately failed to create their own winning ‘khaki campaign’. But it didn’t stop them from trying, and it won’t stop Dutton from trying either.

Lidija IvanovskiFormer Labor adviser

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There was a cracking Guy Ritchie film released last year called The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. It’s a heavily dramatised telling of the still dramatic and completely true exploits of Winston Churchill’s Special Operations Executive during World War II.

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Lidija Ivanovski is a partner at Brookline Advisory and former chief of staff to Richard Marles.

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