22 February 2025

Peter Dutton is playing with fire

In December while I was visiting Australia for a month I met a young woman who told me she would be running a local campaign in the upcoming federal election. She was a member of the Liberal Party, she noted, admitting that she had hoped to be the candidate herself, but the preselection had gone to someone else. But she seemed personally undeterred. ”We’re going to win,” she said, her face alight with her eagerness for the contest.