Peter Dutton is not known to attend church. If the opposition leader has an outward faith, it is in his own judgment.

So it was on Wednesday when he went on Radio National and declared: “I support a woman’s right to choose.”

Tony Abbott’s maiden speech was suffused with soaring religious rhetoric. Peter Dutton’s reflected the view of a workmanlike Queensland cop.Credit: Alex Ellinghausen

Anthony Albanese has faced moments like this when asked to touch the third rail of politics. He often vacillates. Take the census saga that ran from August to September. Gay people weren’t to be counted, then they were. Trans people weren’t to be counted, then they were.

Yet faced with perhaps the most contentious culture war issue, one that has split his party in South Australia and Queensland, Dutton........

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