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How Peter Dutton was created

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I'll Call It Out, Mr Speaker.

When he was immigration minister, Peter Dutton sent a number of inflammatory things about refugees and quite offensive and disparaging for political purposes. He described the Bill O'illah children from Sri Lanka as anchor babies. Out of the last 33 people who have been charged with terrorist-related offences in this country, 22 of those people are from second and third generation Lebanese Muslim background. I think that's probably the major liability or heavy baggage that Dutton carries as a party leader now. It did seem that Dutton was cast in this role and believed himself pretty well suited to this role. But it's not something that suits the current moment because Anthony Albanese has come in with this air of

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