Fadden win gives Dutton much-needed leadership vindication

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But the national polls have been offering the opposition leader little comfort despite mounting mortgage misery and other cost of living pressures across middle Australia. Then came the sudden resignation of a discredited former Liberal minister Stuart Robert causing a by-election. Robert was closely associated with Scott Morrison as well as with direct responsibility for the scandal of robo-debt graphically illustrated by the royal commission a week ahead of the by-election. The Albanese government certainly never expected to win the north Gold Coast seat but had savoured the prospect of perhaps a modest swing against the LNP rather than against...