Cameraman left bloodied after Dutton’s football kick goes astray.
Quote:“I was expecting him to mark it, I was sure he could take the shot,” Dutton told Sky News.
Given how meticulously choreographed and obsessively stage-managed Dutton’s events are, deliberately closed off from the public to avoid even the mildest dissent, he still manages to spectacularly blunder them with breathtaking regularity
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In the sheltered cocoon of the campaign trail, the travelling media don’t get much chance to consume much beyond what’s happening in front of you.
That’s partly by design of the advancers and advisers designing the campaign schedule, endlessly moving from one place to another but never really having any time to see beside what they want you to see; but it has been striking to see, even at a distance, how different Albanese’s campaign events have been from Dutton’s.
In Dutton’s first, he has interacted outside with the general public just twice: once at an Assyrian cultural festival in Fairfield, then chatting to a few motorists at a Sydney petrol station.
Every other event has been closed off, in private areas: an empty brewery on a quiet Saturday, two factories in fenced industrial areas, an empty function room in a far-flung winery, a private dining room in a Chinese restaurant, two rooms full of supporters on his Dickson home turf.
Link No one’s claiming he deliberately injured the cameraman, but a simple “Sorry mate, my bad” would’ve gone a long way.
But of course, not even that.
The man seems pathologically incapable of empathy. He caused the injury, he was directly involved, yet still couldn’t summon the most basic decency to apologise.
Instead, we got this smirking quip: “That’s your exclusive vision too mate, you got it, hold onto that.”
As if that somehow substitutes for accountability.
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