Peter Dutton, a former home affairs minister and hardliner, is trying to craft a softer image, as he vows party will return to concerns of ‘forgotten Australians’
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.
