‘Reckless and desperate’: Malcolm Turnbull savages Peter Dutton for claiming China is backing Labor
by Paul Karp and Daniel Hurst from World news | The Guardian on (#5W11F)
Former Liberal prime minister says defence minister has undermined national security purely for crass political advantage'
Peter Dutton has doubled down on his controversial claims that China would like Labor to defeat the Morrison government at the upcoming federal election, prompting Malcolm Turnbull to warn that such reckless" comments had no basis in fact" and harmed Australia's national security.
The defence minister said on Friday there was no doubt in [his] mind" about what he described as a statement of the obvious" regarding China's preference of Labor. He claimed he based Thursday's inflammatory allegation on open source and other intelligence".
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