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With a cost-of-living election to fight, Dutton strikes a delicate balance on the ‘trans debate’
When Peter Dutton called a rare Canberra press conference on Tuesday to respond to Donald Trump’s tariffs strike, the opposition leader may well have been expecting questions about another matter close to home. A day earlier, a clear majority of the …