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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Ben Smee

‘True to our values’: partisan warrior elected as new leader of Australian Liberals after crushing defeat

The newly elected Leader of the Opposition Peter Dutton and Deputy Sussan Ley talk to the media in the Liberal party room in Parliament House, Canberra this afternoon.
Newly elected Australian opposition leader, Peter Dutton, with deputy Sussan Ley. Photograph: Mike Bowers/The Guardian

Australia’s defeated conservative party, the Liberals, has elected a partisan warrior who has promised the party will return to the concerns of everyday people in opposition.

On Monday, Peter Dutton, long one of the most well-known and divisive figures in Australian politics, was elected unopposed to lead a Liberal party reckoning with their loss to Labor, as well as a swathe of heartland inner-city seats to independents and Greens promising climate action and government accountability.

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