Treasurer Says Opposition Using ‘Division’ as Political Tactic

Published on August 26, 2024

Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers has used an address to the Labor Party think tank to claim Opposition Leader Peter Dutton is deliberately using division as a political tactic. Delivering the 2024 John Curtin Oration—which celebrates the former prime minister who led Labor to a landslide victory in 1943—Chalmers took aim at Dutton’s leadership. “Leadership can help us become an island of decency and opportunity in a sea of uncertainty and division, but leadership which is destructive, and divisive, is not really leadership at all,” he said at the Aug. 26 event. “And that’s what we are seeing from Peter Dutton....

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