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Dutton says Labor is failing on crime. Here’s what the numbers say

The opposition leader made law and order a key feature of his campaign. But is criminality increasing, and do Australians care enough to change their vote?

Copy link Copied Copy link Copied Subscribe to gift this article Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Already a subscriber? Login On the campaign trail at an RSL on Melbourne’s south-eastern outskirts, Peter Dutton sought to stake out some familiar rhetorical territory. “ I was a police officer for about nine years , and I must say .

.. it is something you carry with you always, as a police officer, seeing somebody in a violent situation, the victim of a crime,” the opposition leader said.

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