Questions linger over who attended key online meeting on 30 January with Australian federal police and language used by Dutton afterwards
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Peter Dutton did not personally attend a federal police briefing one day after the Dural caravan plot was publicly revealed, but he has denied claims he “deliberately” kept himself in the dark on key details indicating it was a “fake terrorism plot” orchestrated by organised crime.
In a stern rebuke on Tuesday, the opposition leader accused the home affairs minister, Tony Burke, of lying and “trying to find political opportunity out of a national security issue” after Burke earlier said Dutton had not taken up the offer of a briefing.
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