Dutton says Hastie ‘went on strike’, fumbled key policy work during election campaign

The $ 21 billion defense expenditure policy announced lately of the opposition’s election campaign was criticized for being too late and missing in detail. Dutton’s claim for the election review was that Hastie contributed to the missing announcement of the policy work.

Dutton said Hastie rejected Just in the media on issues related to the defense portfolio and left a gap in the opposition’s attack.

A second source, which does not want to explain the details of the examination to the public, confirmed the tenor of Dutton’s applications, which generally focused on the performance of individual MPs but chose Hastie. Dutton also played a number of other mistakes that had nothing to do with Hastie.

Hastie pushed back firmly, saying that she was in Dutton and in her office to explain why the defense policy was delayed.

“Only Peter Dutton and his office can explain why the defense policy was kept back until the last two weeks of the campaign, Has said Hastie.

“Of course, the reason why anonymous sources are now pushing the media has nothing to do with the last election.

Dutton was contacted for a comment.

Hastie supported Dutton when Dutton Malcolm TURNBULL challenged the Prime Minister for the Prime Minister and lost to Scott Morrison in 2018. However, Hastie and Dutton left the couple in the last period of the government because I could not agree on the office of Ben Roberts-Smith Saga and Dutton. Dutton’s applications can now affect the competition between Hastie and Angus Taylor as leadership candidates who will now arous doubt about Hastie’s effectiveness.

Both this period and finally Hastie said that he wanted a local portfolio such as an economic portfolio or education instead of defense and housework roles he believes in the pigeon hole in the field of security. Hastie, an former army officer, served in SAS before entering the parliament.

This Masthead said on Sunday that Hastie, a self -defined leadership candidate, resigned as a spokesman for the interior and moved to Backbench to save himself in the future of the center -right politics. This was a mixture of MPs Julian Leeser, James McGrath and Jonno Duniam for promotions of an upcoming change.

The policy failures under Dutton led by some MPs attributed to him and his office were the catalyst of the letters of expectations to the preliminary bankers, who were sent last week by Ley and first reported by this Masthead.

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Hastie and their allies do not open a fishing line to challenge a leadership close to Ley, but the front bending Melissa McIntosh said that the party was in a gloomy state in terms of parliamentary representation.

Hastie’s Movement to Backbench created the possibility of long -term focus on him as an alternative leader supported by a group of conservative backbencher, who did not support Ley, and contradicts senior right -speed figures such as James Paterson and Duniam.

“People rejected us in the last election, Mc said McIntosh. Market agenda.

“Sussan has a difficult job and his team is all behind him.”

Emek Hastie’s resignation was seized. Deputy Minister of Citizenship, Customs and Multicultural Works Julian Hill, the coalition “divided, dysfunctional and deceived,” he said.

“Andrew Hastie was not brave enough to run for the leader, but weakens at every opportunity. How long will Sussan Ley take?” he said.

Ley’s key supporter McIntosh said he respected Hastie’s decision. In order to avoid the perception that it initiated a coup, Hastie took its allies out of the loop last week.

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“I can feel it for him because I come from an outer subway seat where high migration pressure on the infrastructure.”

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