2 weeks Ago By Sarah McPhee
Opposition leader Peter Dutton has again dodged questions about whether is he helping his own son to save for a house. Dutton knocked back repeated questions yesterday on whether he would financially help his son Harry with a deposit, after Harry joined his father on the campaign trail and said he was “saving like mad, but it doesn’t look like we’ll get there”. Appearing on Nine’s Today show from Melbourne this morning, Dutton was asked by host Karl Stefanovic: “So .
.. you’re tight with your son, but not with the country?” “I have, like every other family, conversations with our kids over a long period of time.
They’ve got a good work ethic, they’re all working hard, they’re saving toward their deposit,” Dutton said. “In families where you can provide some support, well, you’ll have that conversation with your own kids. But it’s not about our family, it’s about every other family.
“I’m not going to accept a situation where only families with a bank of Mum and Dad, only those kids, can afford to buy a house. I want to make sure that the dream of homeownership is there for every young Australian who is working hard and saving. “I just think we’re underestimating how much young people have really lost the dream of homeownership, and we’re going to restore it.
” Donald Trump was seen only months ago as a disruptive force who brought huge danger to Anthony Albanese at this election campaign. But things changed when the US president brought chaos and confusion to world markets and became an economic risk to Australia with his tariff policies. Now we have hard data on how this is reshaping the election – and hurting Peter Dutton at the halfway point of the campaign.
Voters see a risk from Trump for both the prime minister and the opposition leader because the task of leading Australia through these times will get only harder. The key point is that 33 per cent of all voters are less likely to vote for Dutton because of their views about Trump. Only 21 per cent of all voters say they are less likely to vote for Albanese for the same reason.
The net impact is a drag on support for Dutton. Read more of David Crowe’s analysis here. Good morning and welcome to our live coverage of the 2025 federal election campaign.
I’m Sarah McPhee and I will be helming the blog into the afternoon. We are into the third week of campaigning. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is beginning his day in Hobart, and Opposition leader Peter Dutton is in Melbourne.
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