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Documents show how Peter Dutton’s “captain’s call” as defence minister delivered a senior Coalition adviser the top job at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, ahead of the defence thinktank’s preferred candidate. Just before the May election was called, Dutton announced that Justin Bassi – then chief of staff to the then foreign affairs minister, Marise Payne – would be the institute’s new executive director. Bassi’s appointment was one of more than 30 placements of Coalition staffers and former MPs into high-profile roles.
