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‘Let’s get Dutton’: ALP to play the man in negative election campaign strategy
Anthony Albanese will run a negative election campaign against Peter Dutton’s ‘arrogant, aggressive and reckless’ personality and won’t rely on Labor’s record alone to try and win a second term.
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PM ‘should act’ to restore Pezzullo’s stripped AO: senator
After government sources revealed that Anthony Albanese was opposed to the move to take back former Home Affairs tsar Mike Pezzullo's medal, Liberal frontbencher James Paterson said the PM must restore it or be seen as weak.
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