Apparently stung by criticism of his hard-line political approach, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has started a campaign to soften his public image.

Speaking to reporters while rehearsing jazz ballet moves at the Strathpine CWA Hall in his electorate of Dickson on Brisbane’s northern outskirts (main picture), Mr Dutton rejected the claims about him made by federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers.

After starting a mixed cassette tape of upbeat instrumental pieces and counting himself in by tapping his right foot in time with the music, Mr Dutton executed a stag leap before kick-balling across the hall’s polished wooden floor towards reporters.

Pulling up just short of them and performing an axel turn, he said: “Jim said I was divisive, and not just divisive but deliberately divisive.

“But would someone who is deliberately divisive do this?” he asked before spinning himself into an extended barrel turn then dancing around the room performing a series of pirouettes.

Shimmying towards the reporters, a now breathless Mr Dutton said: “Jim Chalmers is only doing Anthony Albanese’s dirty work.

“So I challenge Mr Albanese….” he began before breaking into a fan kick and ending in the splits with jazz hands.

“… to submit himself to the real judges of our respective performances,” Mr Dutton said as he lifted himself off the floor.

When a reporter asked if he was referring to the voters’ verdict at the federal election due in May 2025, the Opposition Leader clarified his statement.

“No, I literally mean the real judges at the Queensland Eisteddfod in Brisbane next March,” he said.

“I’m challenging Mr Albanese to a dance-off. Let’s see if he has the ticker to accept.

“I’ll take on Jim Chalmers too if it comes to that,” he added.

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