Letter

In response to A Campaign with Only One Contender

Dutton was considered unfit to be leader in 2018

In 2018, Peter Dutton engineered Malcolm Turnbull’s exit as leader. He and his supporters went out for a long night of Chinese food, 12 hours before the vote. Next day Dutton was completely surprised by Scott Morrison.

The reason is now well-known – most Liberal MPs did not consider Dutton as an electoral winner. He never changed!

He was a divisive policy-free player in 2018 and nothing changed for the 2025 election, except that he chose to imitate some of the worst aspects of Trump, and then ran a shocker of a campaign, now being blamed on the NSW branch by the Queensland LNP.

— Bill Brown from Holt, ACT