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Albanese begins final campaign week

The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, will start the final week of the election campaign sandbagging seats on the NSW central coast.

I have appeared on the ABC many times. I doubt you would hear that from me. However, you can safely say that was a tongue-in-cheek comment by Peter Dutton yesterday.

I don't think so, no. Look, that is entirely irrelevant. I think this is quite, frankly, a Labor beat-up. This idea that you can somehow align Peter Dutton with Donald Trump is a nonsense.

Look, I think he was being bit flippant with ... that. I'm sure the ABC, the Guardian and others who have certainly played interviews hard would take that on the chin, as just being a comment in jest.