‘Rigidly flexible’: Peter Dutton’s office directs department to answer media inquiries in three paragraphs

Defence minister wants responses to be ‘as brief and succinct as possible’, an email obtained under FOI reveals

It was 5.58pm on 5 May when an email lobbed into Department of Defence inboxes that suggested Peter Dutton was wasting no time making his mark on his new portfolio.

The email, titled “Media Response Advice”, summarised a request from the defence minister’s office (DMO) about how the department should avoid providing detailed on-the-record answers to questions from journalists.

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