Politics latest: 'No offence intended': Peter Dutton regrets calling Anthony Albanese 'limp-wristed' on China
The Opposition Leader has accepted the phrase 'shouldn't have been used' while criticising the Prime Minister's handling of China, as he faced Labor and teal attacks suggesting the term was homophobic.
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