PVO: What Dutton can do to turn his flailing campaign around

Peter Dutton and the Coalition’s fall from grace has been swift. Plenty are starting to ask the question: is he a goner?

With voters focused on the two party contest now that it is officially underway, the opposition leader (so far at least) isn’t convincing enough voters that he’s a viable alternative PM.

Prior to the campaign voters, when polled, registered a protest vote against Labor and the PM. But those results didn’t assume the need to embrace the alternative party on offer. 

Put simply, they weren't truly indicative of a two horse political race. 

This was just one of the reasons I was saying at the time that Labor remained favourites and therefore on course to win the election, albeit reduced to minority government. 

In the first week and a half of the campaign Newspoll has seen the Coalition’s vote fall back to roughly where it was at the 2022 election that Scott Morrison lost.

In response to the decline Dutton has now dumped...
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