Sussan Ley has issued her shadow ministers with specific performance indicators, imposing a new level of accountability on frontbenchers to avoid a repeat of Peter Dutton’s policy failures.

The opposition leader sent so-called “charter letters” to her entire shadow ministry on Tuesday, laying out her expectations for them in their respective roles.

Senior Liberal sources confirmed the letters, first reported by the Nine newspapers, also contained a more general call for discipline and “respect for colleagues’ portfolios”, which frontbenchers interpreted as an appeal to avoid policy freelancing after the disruption of Andrew Hastie’s interventions on net zero, local car-marking and immigration.

Guardian Australia revealed in July that Ley intended to issue the KPIs in an attempt to imp

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