Rarely in Australian history has a potential prime minister failed as spectacularly as ex-opposition leader Peter Dutton. Two days ago, the 54-year-old had spoken of “Hassmedien”, as the future Prime Minister he wanted to dismiss thousands of officials, slag the state with a hard hand, like Elon Musk’s “Doge” in Washington. He wrapped his followers with racist slogans against immigrants and indigenous people. And the climate change caused by humans is not an issue for him.