POLICY PRIORITIES OF LIBERAL LEADERSHIP CHALLENGER PETER DUTTON
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IMMIGRATION
* Reduce the annual permanent migration intake.
"I think we do have to cut the numbers back."
* Push newly-arrived migrants towards Western Australia, South Australia and regional areas.
"At the moment we've got huge congestion in capital cities ... we need to allow our infrastructure to catch up. We (also) need to rebuild many of our rural towns who are suffering."
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ENERGY
* Lower power prices by removing the GST on household electricity bills.
"I think that is important for pensioners, for self-funded retirees, for people that are finding it difficult to pay the bills each month."
* Establish a royal commission into the fuel and energy sectors.
"There's something that's not right, something that stinks about some of these electricity and fuel companies, and if we can get to the bottom of it I think we can get a better outcome for consumers."
* Potentially withdraw Australia from its Paris agreement climate change targets.
"My judgment is that we do whatever reduces power prices."
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TAX
* Abandon corporate tax cuts and deliver more relief to wage earners and small businesses instead.
"I would support that money being applied either to households or to a tax cut for small and micro-businesses so we can allow them to grow, because they really are the lifeline of the economy."
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DROUGHT
* Deliver more water to drought-stricken farmers.
* "We need to invest more in water to get farmers out of drought so they do not go through what they go through at the moment."
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(SOURCE: Radio interview, 3AW, 22/08/2018)
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