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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Katharine Murphy

Peter Dutton is consciously uncoupling himself and the Liberals from Morrison’s integrity commission car crash

Peter Dutton
Newly elected Liberal leader Peter Dutton needs to think carefully about how he plays the next six months. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP

It’s been a busy couple of weeks, so it’s possible you missed Peter Dutton’s attempt to neutralise at least one of the issues that helped consign the Coalition to opposition on 21 May.

This week, Dutton used his opening sortie as Liberal leader to telegraph an interest in working with the crossbench independent Helen Haines to pass her proposed legislation to establish a federal anti-corruption watchdog.

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