Federal election 2025: Dutton’s media bus bogged outside hotel
Peter Dutton’s campaign has encountered a new hitch as the Opposition Leader prepares for a hectic final week before Saturday’s federal election.
The bus carrying the media covering Mr Dutton’s actions on the campaign trail became stuck on a median strip outside the hotel where they are staying in the middle of the Sydney CBD.
Despite a heroic attempts to push it off the obstruction, the bus was immobile for more than half an hour on Monday morning, blocking a section of Pitt Street and forcing traffic to navigate around it.
This will make it quite hard for the media pack to make the first stop of the day on time.
An initial attempt to use planks of wood to help ease the bus backwards, and off the obstruction, failed.
Bus rescuers managed to winch the offending wheel off the ground to slide the wood underneath.
Mr Dutton, who campaign slogan is “Getting Australia Back on Track”, has plans to hit 28 Labor and Teal held seats he believes the coalition can win.
But his campaign hit a stumble on Sunday night following the last leaders’ debate – the Final Showdown – on the Seven Network where got wrong how much a dozen eggs cost.
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