Federal election 2025: Dutton’s media bus delayed after getting bogged outside hotel

The bus carrying journalists following Peter Dutton on the campaign trail became stuck, delaying the Opposition Leader’s blitz plans.

Peter Dutton’s campaign encountered a new hitch as the Opposition Leader prepared for a hectic final week before Saturday’s federal election.

The bus carrying the media covering Mr Dutton’s actions on the campaign trail became stuck on a median strip outside the hotel where they are staying in the middle of the Sydney CBD.

Despite a heroic attempts to push it off the obstruction, the bus was immobile for more than half an hour on Monday morning, blocking a section of Pitt Street and forcing traffic to navigate around it.

An initial attempt to use planks of wood to help ease the bus backwards, and off the obstruction, failed.

Bus rescuers managed to winch the offending wheel off the ground to slide the wood underneath.

That delayed the media pack for the first stop of the day on time, but they eventually made it to the airport to fly to Newcastle where Mr Dutton will be campaigning in seats, including Paterson.

The Dutton campaign's media bus has become stuck on a median strip in the Sydney CBD on Monday morning. Those on-board have tried – so far unsuccessfully – to shift the bus.

The Dutton campaign's media bus has become stuck on a median strip in the Sydney CBD on Monday morning.

Mr Dutton, who campaign slogan is “Getting Australia Back on Track”, has plans to hit 28 Labor and Teal held seats he believes the coalition can win.

The Coalition needs to pick up at least 21 seats on Saturday to win a majority. It currently has a notional 57 seats, while Labor started the campaign with 78 seats notionally.

A party needs 76 seats to govern in its own right in the 150-seat parliament

The latest Newspoll released on Sunday showed Labor remained in front, wi.h 52 per cent to 48 per cent on a two-party preferred basis.

But his campaign hit a stumble on Sunday night following the last leaders’ debate – the Final Showdown – on the Seven Network where got wrong how much a dozen eggs cost, putting a carton at around $4.20, half of the average price in supermarkets at the moment.

The Coalition’s finance spokeswoman defended the blunder, saying Mr Dutton “can be forgiven” for getting the price of a dozen eggs wrong.

“I think that Peter can be forgiven for not knowing the price of a dozen eggs,” she told Sky News.

“It’s been a fair while since he’s probably made pancakes at home. He’s been very busy on the road, travelling right around Australia, talking to ordinary Australians about what’s important to them, and they are telling him that the cost of living has been their number one issue.”