A ‘diss track’ and Harry Dutton’s campaign cameo: the Coalition wants to show it ‘gets it’

The Liberal leader's son opened up to the cameras about his housing aspirations - and highlighted the voters in the Coalition's sights

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Harry Dutton - the 20-year-old apprentice carpenter and son of the opposition leader, Peter Dutton - is struggling to afford his first home.

We didn't learn this from a journalist or member of the public trawling through his personal affairs, offending the unwritten rule that a politician's family should be spared the scrutiny necessarily applied to their father, mother or partner.

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