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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Daniel Hurst

Peter Dutton has plumbed new and dangerous depths by suggesting China is backing Labor

Scott Morrison and Peter Dutton
Scott Morrison listens to Peter Dutton in parliament. The Coalition wants voters to believe Labor would go soft on China. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP

Peter Dutton’s incendiary question time intervention suggesting China had picked Anthony Albanese as its election candidate plumbed new – and dangerous – depths.

For weeks Scott Morrison and his defence minister have been suggesting voters must not be lulled into a false sense of national security bipartisanship. Only the Coalition, their argument goes, can be trusted not to “appease” China.

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