Australian National Party member of parliament (MP) and the former agricultural minister David Littleproud has defended the new Liberal leader front runner Peter Dutton following Western Australian Labor premier Mark McGowan’s less than flattering comments about the former defence minister on Monday.
Littleproud called Dutton pragmatic and said he feels Dutton will provide the balance needed in Australia.
In the wake of Liberal’s election defeat on Saturday and former prime minister Scott Morrison’s subsequent resignation as leader of the party, McGowan criticised Dutton—the prime candidate to take over the Liberal Party leadership—0n his handling of Australia’s relationship with China when defence minister….