As Opposition Leader Peter Dutton talked tough on crime and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese stressed the importance of diversity, the two came no closer than the opposite ends of the nation.
With less than a week left before Australians who haven’t voted head to the polls, Dutton took his message to Queensland’s far north and Top End capital of Darwin on Saturday, while Albanese started out in Melbourne before heading south to Launceston.
Listening to the concerns of Northern Territory voters on the issue of crime, Dutton promised without offering detail to get tough on the issue.
“You need financial support and moral support … to provide a secure environment for people to lead their lives,” he said.
“The current government is too focused on what’s happening in the inner cities of Sydney and Melbourne with the Greens.”
Earlier in Cairns, he announced 25 medical places at James Cook University to boost local GP numbers and pledged $34 million for infrastructure upgrades to a local housing estate.
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