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Gina Rinehart buys Peter Dutton’s table for Perth party

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Opposition Leader Peter Dutton spent much of this week attacking Anthony Albanese for his flight upgrades. Sticking your neck out always comes with risk.

After flatly denying he’d asked Gina Rinehart for lifts on her private jet, it dawned on him, he had. In Perth on Thursday, Dutton admitted his office reached out to Rinehart to ask for use of her plane to attend a Bali bombing memorial in 2022. Oh, that private jet.

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Mark Di Stefano is Rear Window columnist, based in the Sydney newsroom. He previously worked at BuzzFeed, the Financial Times and The Information before joining the Financial Review as a media and tech correspondent. Connect with Mark on Twitter. Email Mark at mark.distefano@afr.com

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