Peter Dutton has been in Western Australia, which on Trump tariff day may have been a bit of a tactical mistake, given the time delay. Or maybe that was the point, because there doesn’t seem to be much of a cogent message coming out from the Dutton camp on what a Coalition government could have actually done differently, given that Australia, comparatively, got the best deal Trump had going.

Not sure how you do better than that, but hey, Dutton’s message seems to be his sparkling personality and his Temu version of Trump politics would dazzle Trump so much, he would just have a come to Dutton moment and turn it all around.

But as to the actual announcement Dutton had today:

An elected Dutton Coalition Government will support our mining, resources and farming sectors by investing in infrastructure to upgrade agricultural and mining roads critical to getting product to domestic and export markets.