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Marles has some hardware headaches left on his desk

Australia’s huge defence spend will demand yet more difficult decisons for the new defence minister in coming months.

Andrew TillettForeign affairs, defence correspondent

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When he went to cast his ballot on election day, Peter Dutton engaged in a bit of blink- and-you’ll-miss-it trolling of Scott Morrison.

With Morrison’s support for the Cronulla Sharks well-known, Dutton wore a Dolphins cap, the National Rugby League’s expansion team based around Redcliffe near Dutton’s electorate north of Brisbane.

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