{"id":17571,"date":"2022-05-30T11:08:01","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T06:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/?p=17571"},"modified":"2022-05-30T11:08:24","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T06:08:24","slug":"peter-dutton-has-been-named-australias-opposition-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/2022\/05\/30\/peter-dutton-has-been-named-australias-opposition-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Dutton has been named Australia’s opposition leader."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Following a humiliating election defeat, Australia’s main opposition party has named prominent conservative Peter Dutton to succeed Scott Morrison as leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr Dutton, the former defense minister, was elected with no opposition from Liberal MPs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Liberal-National coalition had ruled for nearly a decade when it was defeated by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s Labor Party on May 21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some MPs blamed the defeat on the coalition’s polarizing leaders and its climate change stance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It lost nearly 20 seats, including in areas traditionally considered Liberal Party strongholds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr Dutton, who is from the party’s right, has been a divisive figure at times, and some wonder if he can rebuild Liberal support in more progressive, metropolitan areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is best known for overseeing Australia’s contentious asylum-seeker policies and for his role in the demise of former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Mr Dutton claims that many Australians have only seen his tough side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I’m not going to change,” he said on Monday, “but I want people to see the whole person I am… and make their own decisions.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I’m not as bad as the [media] sometimes portrays me to be.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Firm stances<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The former cop was elected to parliament in 2001 and has held a variety of ministerial positions since then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr Dutton challenged Mr Turnbull for the party leadership in 2018, but did not receive enough support to succeed him. Instead, Mr Morrison was elected party leader and prime minister.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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