Peter Dutton attends Agfest in key seat of Lyons in Tasmania

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Meanwhile the Opposition leader has dropped a vow to change the national school curriculum after saying earlier in the campaign that students should be able to think freely without being indoctrinated. Peter Dutton has been campaigning in Queensland and Tasmania today.

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00:00While it may be a change of scenery, Peter Dutton is keeping his focus on the marginal

00:07seats, this time at AgFest in the seat of Lyons.

00:12He was joined by Jeremy Rockleaf, the Tasmanian Premier and Liberal candidate Susie Bower.

00:22It's held by retiring Labor MP Brian Mitchell and now being contested by former state Labor

00:28leader Rebecca White.

00:30Now as the opposition leader steps into the final campaign push, he's dropped his vow

00:35to change the national school curriculum.

00:38Earlier in the campaign he suggested that students should be able to think freely without

00:43being indoctrinated.

00:44In March promising to rewrite the curriculum to cultivate critical thinking, responsible

00:49citizenship and common sense, but today has reversed that position.

00:54What we'll do is we'll work with parents to reflect what they want to see in the education

01:01system and that is a good education for their children and a coalition government.

01:06When we were last in government, despite what the Prime Minister has told you, the funding

01:09went from $13 billion to $25 billion a year, which is significant.

01:13So we'll continue to fund education at a record rate and we want our kids to get the best possible

01:18education.

01:19In the first week of the campaign Peter Dutton also dropped the coalition's unpopular work

01:30from home policy for public servants.

01:32So the opposition leader is continuing this pace in the last 48 hours of the election campaign.

01:39He did flag that he wanted to visit up to 28 key seats across the country in the last week

01:46of the campaign.

01:47We are currently at over a dozen of those, so certainly a lot more to do over the next 48

01:53hours.

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