Australia election 2025 live: Hume declines to back Dutton’s ‘hate media’ label for ABC and Guardian

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The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, will start the final week of the election campaign sandbagging seats on the NSW central coast.

Fresh from winning last night’s leaders’ debate, Albanese will make his first stop on Monday in Gosford in the seat of Robertson.

I have appeared on the ABC many times. I doubt you would hear that from me.

However, you can safely say that was a tongue-in-cheek comment by Peter Dutton yesterday.

I don’t think so, no. Look, that is entirely irrelevant. I think this is quite, frankly, a Labor beat-up. This idea that you can somehow align Peter Dutton with Donald Trump is a nonsense.

Look, I think he was being bit flippant with with that. I’m sure the ABC, the Guardian and others who have certainly played interviews hard would take that on the chin, as just being a comment in jest.

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