Latika Bourke

2 weeks ago | thewest.com.au | Latika Bourke

Labor isn’t fighting Peter Dutton. They’re fighting Donald Trump, Scott Morrison, Campbell Newman and every Right-wing bogeyman they can conjure. And Peter Dutton, who spent years building up a reputation for being the hard man of Australian politics, seems completely at a loss for how to counter it. Despite spending more than 20 years in federal politics observing his opponents, he has failed to counter-punch the systematic scare campaigns that the Labor Party’s machine has hurled his way.

3 weeks ago | thewest.com.au | Latika Bourke

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has defended the right of the Chinese to deploy off the South Australian coast, a research vessel capable of scanning the seabed for undersea data cables, saying he would “prefer” it wasn’t there, adding Australia does the same in the Taiwan Strait. The opposition said the Prime Minister had again falsely equated Australia’s actions to China’s and demanded he apologise for claiming the Australian Defence Force behaved in the same way as the Chinese Communist Party.

3 weeks ago | thewest.com.au | Latika Bourke

One of the Labor Party’s most respected campaign strategists has questioned Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s decision to campaign in an ultra-safe Coalition central Queensland seat on day one of the federal election campaign, given Labor is haemorrhaging support in the battleground state of Victoria.

3 weeks ago | latikambourke.com | Latika Bourke

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4 weeks ago | thenightly.com.au | Latika Bourke

Peter Dutton has surprised his colleagues with some of his off-topic calls of late, like a referendum into deporting dual citizen terrorists and sex offenders. His Budget Reply needed to reassure them that he is focused on the only topics that matter to voters this election – cost of living and housing. So some might have expected a rabbit or two to be pulled from his political hat. Sign up to The Nightly's newsletters.