The opposition leader made some strange comments about the US election during a private dinner for big-money donors last week.
Politicians tend to be at their most candid among the comfort and safety of their wealthiest friends.spoke at a dinner for the Australian Business Network – the Liberal Party’s big business fundraising body – in Sydney last Thursday in front of about 40 well-moneyed donors from banks, Defence, energy, insurance and the financial services industry, the opposition leader struck a different tone from what we normally see in question time.
But when asked about the election, Dutton apparently didn’t seem like a big fan of Trump , and opined that the Democrats would swap geriatric Presidentfor a younger model before the poll. Now, these remarks came days after Biden had officially clinched the Democratic nomination, and no serious American pundit still believes that, barring some major health scare, the president will be dumped. Dutton’s office didn’t respond to questions about whether he stood by this take.
We can report that our ocker friend – who we’ve been unable to identify – was happy to comply with the request, averting what might have amounted to a short-lived diplomatic crisis. We were taken aback in November last year about the extraordinary herogram published by Science and Technology Australia to its departing chief executiveNow, we can’t go past the 420-odd word magnum opus of a press release the “peak body” for the nation’s scientists has come up with to welcome Schubert’s replacement, former public servant, who has come from that rarely-out-of-the-news outfit the Australian Council of Learned Academies.
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