Peter Dutton

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The Honourable

Peter Dutton

MP
Sub-Regional Meeting on Counter Terrorism (31874365738) (cropped).jpg
Dutton in 2018
Minister for Defence
Assumed office
30 March 2021
Prime MinisterScott Morrison
DeputyAndrew Hastie
Preceded byLinda Reynolds
Leader of the House
Assumed office
30 March 2021
Prime MinisterScott Morrison
Preceded byChristian Porter
Minister for Home Affairs
In office
20 December 2017 – 30 March 2021
Prime MinisterMalcolm Turnbull
Scott Morrison
Preceded byJason Clare
Succeeded byKaren Andrews
Minister for Immigration and Border Protection
In office
23 December 2014 – 21 August 2018
Prime MinisterTony Abbott
Malcolm Turnbull
Preceded byScott Morrison
Succeeded byDavid Coleman
Minister for Health
In office
18 September 2013 – 23 December 2014
Prime MinisterTony Abbott
Preceded byTanya Plibersek
Succeeded bySussan Ley
Minister for Sport
In office
18 September 2013 – 23 December 2014
Prime MinisterTony Abbott
Preceded byDon Farrell
Succeeded bySussan Ley
Assistant Treasurer of Australia
In office
27 January 2006 – 3 December 2007
Prime MinisterJohn Howard
Preceded byMal Brough
Succeeded byChris Bowen
Minister for Workforce Participation
In office
26 October 2004 – 27 January 2006
Prime MinisterJohn Howard
Preceded byFran Bailey
Succeeded bySharman Stone
Member of the Australian Parliament
for Dickson
Assumed office
10 November 2001
Preceded byCheryl Kernot
Majority4.64% (8,988)
Personal details
Born
Peter Craig Dutton

(1970-11-18) 18 November 1970 (age 50)
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Political partyLiberal (federal)
Other political
affiliations		Liberal National (Queensland)
Coalition
Alma materQueensland University of Technology
Websitepeterdutton.com.au

Peter Craig Dutton (born 18 November 1970)[1] is an Australian politician. He is a member of the Liberal Party and has served as Minister for Defence and Leader of the House in the Morrison Government since March 2021. He has been a member of cabinet since 2013 and represented the Queensland seat of Dickson since 2001.

Dutton grew up in Brisbane and worked for the Queensland Police for nearly a decade, also running a construction business with his father. He joined the Liberals as a teenager and was first elected to the House of Representatives at the 2001 federal election, aged 30. He held junior ministerial office in the Howard Government as Minister for Employment Participation (2004–2006) and Assistant Treasurer (2006–2007). After the Coalition's defeat at the 2007 election he was appointed to shadow cabinet, holding the health portfolio from 2008 onwards.

Following the 2013 federal election, Dutton served as Minister for Health (2013–2014), Sport (2013–2014), and Immigration and Border Protection (2014–2017) in the governments of Tony Abbott and Malcolm Turnbull. In 2017, he was appointed Minister for Home Affairs, heading a new department with broad responsibilities. Seen as a leader of the party's conservative faction, Dutton unsuccessfully challenged Turnbull for the leadership in August 2018 and was then defeated by Scott Morrison in a second ballot days later. He retained the home affairs portfolio in the new government, taking on the defence portfolio in 2021 following a cabinet reshuffle.

Early years

Dutton was born in the northern Brisbane suburb of Boondall, the eldest of five children, with one brother and three sisters. His mother Ailsa Leitch worked in childcare and his father Bruce Dutton was a builder. Dutton finished high school at the Anglican St Paul's School, Bald Hills.[2] He is the great great grandson of the pastoralist squatter Charles Boydell Dutton.[3] He is also a descendant of Captain Richard James Coley, who was Queensland's first Sergeant-at-Arms, who built Brisbane's first private dwelling and who gave evidence confirming the mass poisonings of Aboriginal Australians at Kilcoy in 1842.[4]

Dutton joined the Young Liberals in 1988. He became the policy vice-chair of the Bayside Young Liberals the following year and chair of the branch in 1990. At the 1989 Queensland state election, the 19-year-old Dutton ran unsuccessfully as the Liberal candidate against Tom Burns (former state ALP leader) in the safe Labor seat of Lytton.[2][5]

Dutton graduated from the Queensland Police Academy in 1990. He was a Queensland Police officer for nine years, working in the Drug Squad in Brisbane in the early 1990s.[6][7] He also worked in the Sex Offenders Squad and the National Crime Authority.[8] As a second job, he worked with his father in a building business.[2]

In 1999, Dutton left the Queensland Police.[9][verification needed][10] Documentation filed in the District Court of Queensland in 2000 describes Dutton's resignation as being prompted by a loss of driving confidence resulting from an incident on 4 August 1998. Dutton was driving an unmarked Mazda 626 during a covert surveillance operation. Dutton rolled his car while in pursuit of an escaped prisoner who was driving erratically. Dutton also suffered numerous physical injuries during the accident, and as a result, was hospitalised briefly and bedridden for a week. Dutton had sought damages of $250,000 from the escaped prisoner's insurance company but dropped the claim in 2005.[11]

He went on to become a businessman, completing a Bachelor of Business at the Queensland University of Technology.[12][13] He and his father founded the business Dutton Holdings, which was registered in 2000; it operated under six different trading and business names.[14] The company bought, renovated, and converted buildings into childcare centres, and in 2002 it sold three childcare centres to the now defunct ABC Learning. ABC Learning continued to pay rent to Dutton Holdings for a commercial lease until at least 2007.[15] Dutton Holdings continues to trade under the name Dutton Building & Development.[14]

Howard Government (2001–07)

Dutton with Indian finance minister P. Chidambaram at the 2006 Asian Development Bank board of governors AGM in Hyderabad

Dutton was elected to the Division of Dickson at the 2001 election, defeating Labor's Cheryl Kernot. He was elevated to the ministry after the 2004 election as Minister for Workforce Participation, a position he held until January 2006. He was then appointed Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Revenue. He successfully retained Dickson at the 2007 election, which saw the government lose office. However, his margin was reduced to just 217 votes more than Labor's Fiona McNamara.[16]

Opposition (2007–13)

Following the 2007 election, Dutton was promoted to shadow cabinet by the new Liberal leader Brendan Nelson, as Shadow Minister for Finance, Competition Policy and Deregulation.[17] In 2008, he chose not to be present in the chamber during the apology to the Stolen Generations, which enjoyed bipartisan support.[13] He said "I regarded it as something which was not going to deliver tangible outcomes to kids who are being raped and tortured in communities in the 21st century."[18] Later, in a 2014 interview with the Sydney Morning Herald, Dutton said he regretted boycotting the apology: "I underestimated the symbolic and cultural significance of it."[2]

In September 2008, Nelson was replaced as Liberal leader by Malcolm Turnbull, who appointed Dutton as Shadow Minister for Health and Ageing. He retained that position when Tony Abbott succeeded Turnbull as leader in December 2009.[19] In June 2010, Dutton released the Coalition's mental health policy. The Australian described it as "the most significant announcement by any political party in relation to a targeted, evidence-based investment in mental health",[20] but not all experts agreed.[21]

Dutton retained his seat with a positive swing at the 2010 federal election, despite an unfavourable redistribution. In the lead-up to the 2013 federal election, he announced a range of Coalition health policies, which were received favourably by industry groups. The Australian Medical Association said "the Coalition has delivered a strong package of practical, affordable health policies that would strengthen general practice",[22] while Cancer Council Australia said that "Dutton's promise to finalise the bowel cancer screening program by 2020 would save an additional 35,000 lives over the next 40 years."[23]

Attempted seat shift

As the 2010 election approached, it looked like Dutton would lose to the Labor candidate due to a redistribution of division boundaries that had erased his majority and made Dickson notionally Labor. To safeguard himself, Dutton sought pre-selection for the merged Liberal National Party in the safe Liberal seat of McPherson on the Gold Coast (despite not living in or near McPherson).[24] Some constituents complained, "The abandoning of a seat by a sitting MP halfway through a parliamentary term to contest pre-selection in a seat over 100 kilometres to the south is not looked upon favourably."[25]

Dutton lost the McPherson pre-selection to Karen Andrews, reportedly due to misgivings from former Nationals in the area.[26] He then asked the LNP to "deliver him a seat for which he does not have to fight other preselection candidates." Liberal MP Alex Somlyay (the chief Opposition whip of the time) said that Dutton's expectation of an uncontested preselection was "unusual."[27] When the state executive did not provide Dutton an unchallenged preselection, Dutton reluctantly returned to campaign for the seat of Dickson.[28][29] In the election, he won the seat with a 5.9% swing towards him.[30]

Cabinet minister (2013–present)

See also: Abbott Government and Turnbull Government

Minister for Health

Dutton retained his seat at the 2013 election. He was appointed to the Ministry by then Prime Minister Tony Abbott, and served as Minister for Health and Minister for Sport.

As Health Minister, Dutton announced the world-leading $20 billion Medical Research Future Fund. As announced, the capital and any ongoing capital gains of the Medical Research Future Fund will be preserved in perpetuity.

Under Minister Dutton, projected funding in the health portfolio increased in the 2014–15 Budget to $66.9 billion, an increase of 7.5 percent from $62.2 billion in 2012���13, the final full year of the Labor Government. Projected expenditure on Medicare increased over 9.5 percent from $18.5 billion in 2012–13 under Labor to a projected $20.32 billion in 2014–15 under Dutton.[31][32] Funding for public hospital services increased by nearly 14 percent under Dutton in the 2014–15 Budget to a projected $15.12 billion compared to $13.28 billion in the last full year of the Labor Government in 2012–13.

In a 2015 poll by Australian Doctor magazine, based on votes from over 1,100 doctors, Dutton was voted the worst health minister in the last 35 years by 46 percent of respondents.[33]

Minister for Immigration (2014–17)

Dutton (left) meeting with EU Migration Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos in 2016.

On 23 December 2014, Dutton was sworn in as the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection after a cabinet reshuffle.[34]

In September 2015, Dutton cancelled the visa of anti-abortion activist Troy Newman, over remarks in his 2000 book Their Blood Cries Out.[35][36]

In 2016, News Corp Sunday political editor Samantha Maiden[37] wrote a column critical of Jamie Briggs.[38] Dutton drafted a text message to Briggs describing Maiden as a "mad fucking witch" but inadvertently sent it to Maiden.[39] Maiden accepted an apology from Dutton.[40][41]

illiterate Refugee Comments

Before the 2016 election Dutton said of refugees "many ... won't be numerate or literate in their own language let alone English",[42] and "These people would be taking Australian jobs".[42] Turnbull defended Dutton by stating he is an "outstanding Immigration Minister".[42] Against a statewide swing against the government of 2.9 points, Dutton's margin fell from 6.7 to 1.6 points, leaving him with a margin of fewer than 3,000 votes against Labor candidate Linda Lavarch.[43]

Sarah Hanson-Young

On 5 June 2015, Dutton denied claims made by Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young that she was spied on during a visit to Nauru. At the same time he called into question her credibility saying "I have evidence that Senator Hanson-Young over-states every issue. She gets her facts wrong most of the time. And I just think you need to look at it in the light of experience with Senator Hanson-Young. If she's got evidence, produce it."[44] He also claimed that "What Sarah Hanson-Young is about is publicity. She loves the camera and she loves to see her own name in the paper. That's the start and finish of Sarah Hanson-Young."[45] Hanson-Young responded that "Peter Dutton can attack and insult me as much as he likes, but nothing will change the fact that my work has revealed systemic child abuse and the rape of young women on Nauru under his watch."[45] The spying claims were later confirmed by the Immigration Department and Wilson Security who carried out the spying operation.[46]

Au pair cases

Dutton (third from right) at an Australian citizenship ceremony in 2017.

In June 2015, an au pair who was detained at Brisbane Airport made a phone call and had her tourist visa reinstated. In November, in a second case, Dutton granted a visa to another au pair, despite his department warning him that she was at risk of breaching her work conditions on her tourist visa. Dutton indicated that he knew neither tourist. In August 2018, Roman Quaedvlieg indicated that he had personal knowledge of one of the cases, and was seeking to correct Hansard if it did not match his knowledge.[47] A third au pair was granted a visa due to lobbying by AFL chief Gillon McLachlan, she was due to stay with his relative Callum Maclachlan. Dutton's department again warned him there were indications that she was intending to work for Callum's family.[48] A Senate inquiry into two of the cases published a report on 11 September 2018.[49] It recommended "that the Senate consider censuring the Minister for Home Affairs (the Hon Peter Dutton MP) ... for failing to observe fairness in making official decisions as required by the Statement of Ministerial Standards."[50]

Rising seas joke

On 11 September 2015, Dutton was overheard on an open microphone, before a community meeting on Syrian refugees, joking about rising sea levels in the Pacific Islands. He said "time doesn't mean anything when you're about to have water lapping at your door".[51] Dutton initially refused to apologise, saying it was a private conversation, but later apologised.[52] The foreign minister of The Marshall Islands at the time, Tony deBrum, responded by writing the "insensitivity knows no bounds in the big polluting island down [south]" and the "Next time waves are battering my home [and] my kids are scared, I will ask Peter Dutton to come over, and he is still probably laughing,"[53]

Comments on Lebanese immigration

In November 2016, Dutton said it was a mistake by the Malcolm Fraser administration to have admitted Lebanese Muslim immigrants.[citation needed] Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said Dutton was making a specific point about those charged with terrorism offences. "He made it quite clear that he respects and appreciates the contribution that the Lebanese community make in Australia."[54]

Manus Island

On 15 April 2017 shots were fired by the Papua New Guinea defence force into the Manus Island Detention Centre. Dutton responded saying "There was difficulty, as I understand it, in the community. There was an alleged incident where three asylum seekers were alleged to be leading a local five-year old boy back toward the facility and there was a lot of angst around that, if you like, within the local PNG community." "I think there was concern about why the boy was being led or for what purpose he was being led away back into the regional processing centre. So I think it's fair to say that the mood had elevated quite quickly. I think some of the local residents were quite angry about this particular incident and another alleged sexual assault."[55]

However, the regional police commander on Manus Island said a young boy who was 10, not five, had gone to the centre two weeks earlier to ask for food. He said "It's a total separate incident altogether"[56] The Greens senator Nick McKim said Dutton had been caught telling an outrageous lie. "This has disturbing echoes of the children overboard affair lies."[56]

On 31 October 2017, the Papuan Government closed down the Manus Island regional processing centre. However, 600 men residing in the processing centre refused to be moved to alternative accommodation in the town of Lorengau and staged a protest. Dutton defended the closure of the processing centre and asserted that the Papuan authorities had given notice of the camp's impending closure in May 2017. He also rejected Australian Greens Senator Nick McKim's report that there was no safe alternative accommodation available as false and claimed McKim was inciting trouble.[57] Following a prolonged standoff with Papuan security forces, the remaining men were evacuated, many forcibly, to new accommodation.[58] Arrangements have been made to resettle an unspecified number of the asylum seekers in the United States. The others will be moved to either a different part of Papua New Guinea or a different country.[59][60]

In mid-November 2017, Dutton rejected an offer by the newly-elected New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to resettle 150 asylum seekers from the Manus Island detention centre in New Zealand and warned that it would have repercussions for the two countries' bilateral relations. He also claimed that New Zealand's offer would encourage people smugglers. Dutton also criticised a New Zealand offer to provide $3 million for services for asylum seekers on Manus and Nauru as a "waste of money" that could be spent elsewhere, such as displaced people in Indonesia. In addition, Dutton criticised Australia's Opposition Leader Bill Shorten's call for Australia to accept the New Zealand offer as an attempt to appease the Labor Left with "cheap political stunts and mealy-mouthed words".[61][62]

Minister for Home Affairs (2017–2021)

Dutton (second from right) announcing the creation of the new Home Affairs portfolio in July 2017.

On 20 December 2017, Dutton was appointed the Minister for Home Affairs with responsibilities of overseeing the Department of Home Affairs which was established on 20 December 2017 by Administrative Arrangement Order. The Home Affairs portfolio is a major re-arrangement of national security, law enforcement, emergency management, transport security, border control, and immigration functions.

South African farm attacks

Main article: South African farm attacks § Australia

In March 2018 Dutton made calls to treat white South African farmers as refugees, stating that "they need help from a civilised country".[63][64] However, his offer was rejected by Afrikaner rights organisation AfriForum, which stated that the future of Afrikaners was in Africa, as well as by the survivalist group the Suidlanders, which took credit for bringing the issue of a purported "white genocide" to international attention and for Dutton's decision,[65][66] and was met with "regret" by the South African foreign ministry.[67] The Australian High Commissioner was subsequently summoned by the South African foreign ministry, which expressed its offence at Dutton's statements, and demanded a "full retraction".[68][69]

His proposal got support from some of his party's backbenchers and Liberal Democrat Senator David Leyonhjelm[70] with Leyonhjelm later clarifying that he thought that South African farmers should be admitted under existing visa programmes, and could not be regarded as refugees.[71] National Party of Australia MP Andrew Broad warned that the mass migration of South African farmers would result in food shortages in South Africa.[72] Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema encouraged white farmers to take up Dutton's offer.[73] After initially leaving the door open to changes, Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop subsequently ruled out any special deals for white South African farmers, emphasising the non-discriminatory nature of Australia's humanitarian visa programme.[74] In a subsequent interview, Dutton vowed to push forward with his plans, saying that his critics were "dead to me".[75]

Later, in April 2018, it emerged that Dutton's department had previously blocked asylum applications by a white farmer, and another white South African woman, with the decisions upheld by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal.[76]

Immigration from New Zealand

Dutton (right) at the swearing in of Michael Outram as Commissioner of the Australian Border Force in May 2018.

As both Immigration Minister and Home Affairs Minister, Peter Dutton has defended an amendment to the Migration Act 1958 that facilitates the denial or cancellation of Australian visas for non-citizens on "character" grounds. This stringent "character test" also affects non-citizens who have lived most of their lives in Australia or who have families living in the country.[77] New Zealand nationals living in Australia were disproportionately affected by this "character test" with over 1,300 New Zealanders having been deported from Australia in the period between January 2015 and July 2018.[78][79] According to a Home Affairs Department report, 620 New Zealanders had their visas cancelled on character grounds in 2017 alone.[80]

In July 2017, Dutton's Department of Immigration and Border Protection introduced a special Skilled Independent subclass 189 visa to provide a pathway for New Zealanders holding a Special Category Visa to acquire Australian citizenship. The visa requires NZ nationals to have held a Special Category Visa for five years and to maintain an annual income of $53,900. Between 60,000 and 80,000 New Zealanders residing in Australia are eligible for the Skilled Independent subclass 189 visa. By February 2018, 1,512 skilled independent visas had been issued by late February 2018 with another 7,500 visas still being processed.[81][82] The Skilled Independent subclass 189 visa was criticised by Australian Greens Senator Nick McKim as a stealth means of favouring "English-speaking, white and wealthy" migrants.[82]

In early July 2018, Dutton ordered the deportation of controversial New Zealand Baptist Pastor Logan Robertson, who had disrupted services at two mosques in Kuraby and Darra in Brisbane. Dutton approved Robertson's visa cancellation on the grounds that he had violated the conditions of his visa, stating that "we have a wonderful tradition in our country of freedom of speech, but we're not going to tolerate people going to a place of worship and harassing others."[83][84][85] Robertson had early drawn controversy in New Zealand for his homophobic remarks and opposition to same-sex marriage.[86]

In mid-July 2018, Dutton's immigration "character test" became the subject of a controversial Australian Broadcasting Corporation documentary, entitled "Don't Call Australia Home", focusing on New Zealanders who had been deported from Australia.[78] In response, Dutton issued a tweet defending his deportation policy and claiming that deporting 184 "bikies" saved Australia A$116 million.[87][88] In response, the New Zealand Minister of Justice Andrew Little, who also appeared in the documentary, criticised Australia's deportation laws for lacking "humanitarian ideals."[89] The documentary's release also coincided with the release of a 17-year-old New Zealand youth from an Australian detention centre, which had caused friction between the two governments.[90] In response, Dutton defended his Government's policy of deporting non-citizen criminals and chastised New Zealand for not contributing enough to assist Australian naval patrols intercepting the "people smugglers."[91]

Dutton and Indonesia's chief security minister Wiranto in November 2018

In mid-July 2019, Dutton defended Australia's right to deport criminal non-citizens in response to concerns raised by the visiting New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, stating:

We need to stand up for Australians. And the New Zealand prime minister is rightly doing that for her people. But where we've got Australian citizens who are falling victim in certain circumstances where people are sexually offending against children, for example, we've had a big push to try to deport those paedophiles.[92][93]

In response, Professor Patrick Keyzer and Dave Martin of La Trobe University criticized Dutton's pedophilia remarks as misleading and contended that most deportees from Australia had spent most of their lives in Australia and had little ties to New Zealand.[94]

Protests

In October and November 2019, Dutton expressed his views on protesters and police response. He stated that when protesters break the law "There needs to be mandatory or minimum sentences imposed... A community expectation is that these people are heavily fined or jailed." He also agreed with an on-air statement made by conservative 2GB radio presenter Ray Hadley that protesters should not receive social security payments. Leader of the Australian Greens Richard Di Natale responded by saying that "Peter Dutton doesn’t know what living in a democracy means" and claimed that he's "starting to sound more like a dictator than he is an elected politician. Because somebody says something that he doesn’t like, that he doesn’t support, he’s saying we’re going to strip away income support."[95]

In November 2019, Dutton said that the States should make protesters pay for the cost of police response to demonstrations.[96] He said of protesters: "For many of them they don't even believe in democracy... These people are completely against our way of life. These people can protest peacefully, as many people do, but the disruption that they seek to cause, the disharmony that they seek to sow within our society is unacceptable."[96]

Policing

In December 2019, Dutton announced that airport security measures were to be increased to detect, deter and respond to potential threats to aviation safety. Measures include greater use of canines and the deployment of extra protective services personnel armed with MK18 short-barreled rifles. Dutton appeared in a video alongside police personnel to announce the policy, sparking criticism of the potential use of police for political purposes.[97]

In March 2019, the Australian Federal Police Association had claimed that the AFP should be removed from the Department of Home Affairs to preserve its integrity and its ability to carry out investigations without government influence. Association president Angela Smith described it as "an embarrassing situation... We look the least independent police force in Australia, surely the other police forces are laughing at us."[98]

Leadership challenges

Main article: Liberal Party of Australia leadership spills, 2018

On 21 August 2018, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull called a snap ballot of the leadership of the Liberal Party following several days of feverish leadership speculation, of which Dutton was at the centre.[99] Dutton responded to Turnbull's ballot call by formally challenging for the leadership of the party and won 35 of 83 votes available, 7 short of a majority.[100] Dutton then resigned from the Ministry despite being offered by Turnbull to retain his position of Minister for Home Affairs, and the media speculated that Dutton and his conservative backers in the party were likely to challenge for the leadership again in the near future.[101] Three days later, Dutton called for another leadership spill, and Malcolm Turnbull tendered his resignation to the Governor-General. Dutton was defeated by Treasurer and Acting Home Affairs Minister Scott Morrison by 45 votes to 40.

Dutton representing Australia at the 2018 Sub-Regional Meeting on Counter Terrorism in Indonesia

Doubts surrounding Dutton's eligibility to be elected to parliament emerged on the grounds of section 44(v) of the Australian Constitution, as the family trust owned by Dutton operated a child care centre that received over $5.6 million in funding from the Commonwealth Government, in a situation similar to Bob Day's case. Although Dutton had received legal advice stating that he was not in breach of section 44(v), Labor had received contrary advice; at Turnbull's request, the Attorney-General referred the matter to the Solicitor-General.[102] On 23 August, Labor attempted to move a motion to refer Dutton's eligibility as an MP to the High Court, in a similar manner to referrals made during the recent parliamentary citizenship crisis. The motion failed by 69 votes to 68.[103] On 24 August, the Solicitor-General advised that in terms of section 44(v) Dutton was "not incapable" of sitting as an MP, although he added that he had been provided with limited factual information and that, owing to differences of judicial opinion in earlier decisions of the High Court on section 44(v), Dutton's legal position could not be entirely clear without a referral to the High Court.[104][105] Dutton was reappointed to his former Home Affairs portfolio by Scott Morrison in the Morrison Ministry, however the duty of Immigration was stripped from the role and was assigned to David Coleman.[106]

2019 federal election

Dutton was re-elected at the 2019 federal election.[107] The political think tank GetUp! identified Dutton as "Australia's most unwanted hard-right politician" after surveying more than "30,000 members".[108][109] GetUp! mounted a campaign in an attempt to defeat Dutton in Dickson.[110] In response, Dutton said GetUp! was, "deceptive", "undemocratic" and "unrepresentative" and that he would back "parliamentary processes to bring the activist group to heel."[110] GetUp! has defended the effectiveness of its campaigning in Dutton's electorate.[111]

Minister for Defence (2021–present)

Dutton talking with the commander of a US Marine Corps battalion during a military exercise in 2021

In March 2021, Dutton was appointed Minister for Defence.[112] On 21 May 2021, Dutton directed the department and serving military personnel to stop pursuing a "woke agenda", and cease holding events to mark the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Interphobia and Transphobia where staff wore rainbow clothing.[113]

On 16 June 2021, Justice Richard White ordered Dutton to attend mediation over a defamation suit he brought against refugee activist, Shane Bazzi over a tweet calling him a "rape apologist".[114]

On 11 July 2021, Dutton announced the end of Australia's military presence in Afghanistan.[115]

Political views

Dutton is aligned with the right-wing, conservative faction of the Liberal Party.[116][117][118][119][120] He has been described as a right-wing populist,[121][122][123] and is opposed to an Australian republic.[2][verification needed] In December 2018, Dutton told Sky News that for the prior seventeen years he had regarded "parliament as a disadvantage for sitting governments".[124]

African Gang Violence

Dutton said that people in Melbourne are scared of going out because of "gang violence" involving African Australians,[125] leading to him being ridiculed by people who live in Melbourne.[126]

Negative gearing

Dutton, who owns six properties with his wife, including a shopping centre in Townsville, opposes any changes to negative gearing which currently offers tax breaks to property investors, stating that changing it would harm the economy.[127]

Legalisation of cannabis

Dutton is against the legalisation of cannabis, and has described it as a "gateway drug".[128] After the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) decriminalised the recreational use of cannabis in September 2019, Dutton condemned the new laws as "unconscionable", "trendy" and "dangerous".[129]

Same-sex marriage

Dutton opposes same-sex marriage.[130] In March 2017 it was reported in The Sydney Morning Herald that Dutton "said privately it was inevitable that same-sex marriage would become law in Australia so it would be better for the Coalition, rather than Labor, to control the process".[131] Dutton's actions publicly have been in opposition to same-sex advocates and "the forcefulness of Mr Dutton's attack on corporate chief executives last week – in which he told them to 'stick to their knitting' – has aroused suspicion among some colleagues who believed he was committed to achieving a breakthrough on [same-sex marriage]".[131] The following month The Daily Telegraph reported that Dutton was asked by a lesbian for clarification on his position, and he "told her he had been clear that he was against same-sex marriage".[130] In his political career, Dutton has voted "very strongly against same sex marriage".[132] However, he voted in favour of the Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Act 2017, which legalised same-sex marriage; 65 percent of his constituency voted "Yes" in the Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey.[133]

In March 2017, 31 CEOs signed a letter to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull calling for a free vote in the Australian Parliament on same-sex marriage. In response to this letter, on 16 March 2017, Dutton said that the CEOs "shouldn't shove their views down our throats" and that CEOs who were "doing the wrong thing" should "be publicly shamed".[134] Dutton repeated his criticism at a speech to the LNP State Council in Queensland on 18 March.[135]

Dutton's comments were heavily criticised as an attempt to censor expressions of support for same-sex marriage, with some commenters also accusing him of hypocrisy given his support for changing Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act.[136] Former New South Wales Premier Kristina Keneally said that according to Dutton, "Free speech is great and should be expanded, unless it's an Australian corporate CEO speaking about same-sex marriage. Then they need to shut up."[137] Liberal MPs and ministers Julie Bishop and Simon Birmingham also expressed disagreement with Dutton's comments.[138]

On 9 May 2017, a 67-year-old man pushed a pie into the face of Qantas CEO Alan Joyce while Joyce was speaking at a function in Perth. The next day, the assailant confirmed that the attack was to protest against Joyce's support for same-sex marriage.[139] Dutton had singled out Joyce in his criticism of pro-same-sex marriage CEOs,[140] leading some LGBTI advocates to hold him partially responsible for the attack.[141] Dutton condemned the attack on Twitter.[142]

South African farmers

Dutton has been accused of supporting and promoting the white genocide myth.[143][144][145][146][147] In 2018, amid pressure by the South African Australian community for a special immigration intake for their family members,[148][149] he declared that Afrikaners required refugee status in Australia because of the high level of violent crime in South Africa and "the horrific circumstances they face" in South Africa.[150] BBC News reported that the Suidlanders group's "message of white genocide" had "resonated" with Dutton, prompting him to offer fast-track visas to white South African farmers due to their being "persecuted", claiming they needed help from a "civilised" country.[151] Meanwhile, local media contribution from The Greens leader Richard Di Natale labelled the process of bringing white South African farmers to Australia as thoroughly racist.[152] He also labelled it as a policy that would restore the semblance of policy that was not dissimilar to that enacted under the White Australia Policy.[152]

Personal life

Dutton married his first wife when he was 22 years of age; however, the marriage ended after a few months.[153] His eldest child, a daughter, was born in 2002 to another partner, and splits time between her parents in a shared parenting arrangement. In 2003 Dutton married his second wife, Kirilly (née Brumby), with whom he has two sons.[2][verification needed][154]

On 13 March 2020, Dutton announced that he tested positive for COVID-19, becoming one of the first high-profile cases of the pandemic in Australia. Earlier in March 2020, he had travelled to Washington, D.C., where he met with Five Eyes security ministers, US Attorney General William Barr, and Ivanka Trump on 6 March.[155][156][157]

Electoral performance

This section is an excerpt from Electoral results for the Division of Dickson § 2001.[]
2001 Australian federal election: Dickson
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Peter Dutton 36,390 45.58 +10.79
Labor Cheryl Kernot 26,557 33.26 -7.34
Independent Colin Kessels 5,203 6.52 +6.52
Democrats Shayne Turner 4,296 5.38 +1.30
Greens Paul Kramer 2,812 3.52 +1.44
One Nation Wayne Whitney 2,575 3.23 -5.29
Independent Terry Hyland 1,220 1.53 +1.53
Outdoor Recreation Gary Kimlin 485 0.61 +0.61
Independent J. F. Barnes 305 0.38 +0.38
Total formal votes 79,843 94.38 -2.12
Informal votes 4,755 5.62 +2.12
Turnout 84,598 96.51
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal Peter Dutton 44,688 55.97 +6.09
Labor Cheryl Kernot 35,155 44.03 -6.09
Liberal gain from Labor Swing +6.09
This section is an excerpt from Electoral results for the Division of Dickson § 2004.[]
2004 Australian federal election: Dickson
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Peter Dutton 39,810 52.09 +6.55
Labor Craig McConnell 27,036 35.37 +2.18
Greens Howard Robert Nielsen 4,485 5.87 +2.35
Family First Dale Shuttleworth 3,454 4.52 +4.52
Democrats Kirsty Reye 1,270 1.66 -3.64
Great Australians Terry Hyland 373 0.49 +0.49
Total formal votes 76,428 95.40 +1.12
Informal votes 3,684 4.60 -1.12
Turnout 80,112 95.14 +0.92
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal Peter Dutton 44,199 57.83 +1.81
Labor Craig McConnell 32,229 42.17 -1.81
Liberal hold Swing +1.81
This section is an excerpt from Electoral results for the Division of Dickson § 2007.[]
2007 Australian federal election: Dickson
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal National Peter Dutton 38,507 46.15 -6.65
Labor Fiona McNamara 36,438 43.67 +9.54
Greens Howard Nielsen 5,006 6.00 +0.38
Family First Dale Shuttleworth 2,118 2.54 -1.75
Democrats Peter Kerin 797 0.96 -0.64
Christian Democrats Connie Wood 323 0.39 +0.39
Liberty & Democracy Brad Cornwell 258 0.31 +0.31
Total formal votes 83,447 97.23 +1.64
Informal votes 2,380 2.77 -1.64
Turnout 85,827 96.05 +0.10
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal Peter Dutton 41,832 50.13 -8.76
Labor Fiona McNamara 41,615 49.87 +8.76
Liberal hold Swing -8.76
This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2010 Australian federal election in Queensland § Dickson.[]
2010 Australian federal election: Dickson[158]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal National Peter Dutton 39,880 48.96 +3.62
Labor Fiona McNamara 27,264 33.47 -10.95
Greens David Colbert 8,888 10.91 +4.84
Independent Rebecca Jenkinson 2,558 3.14 +3.14
Family First Alan Revie 2,340 2.87 +0.35
Liberal Democrats Bob Hunter 521 0.64 +0.34
Total formal votes 81,451 95.59 -1.62
Informal votes 3,755 4.41 +1.62
Turnout 85,206 94.56 -0.81
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal National Peter Dutton 44,902 55.13 +5.89
Labor Fiona McNamara 36,549 44.87 -5.89
Liberal National hold Swing +5.89
This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2013 Australian federal election in Queensland § Dickson.[]
2013 Australian federal election: Dickson[159]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal National Peter Dutton 41,163 48.01 −0.95
Labor Michael Gilliver 26,848 31.32 −2.15
Palmer United Mark Taverner 8,390 9.79 +9.79
Greens Tyrone D'Lisle 5,507 6.42 −4.49
Katter's Australian Jim Cornwell 1,697 1.98 +1.98
Family First Michael McDowell 1,542 1.80 −1.07
Rise Up Australia Geoffrey Taylor 585 0.68 +0.68
Total formal votes 85,732 95.74 +0.15
Informal votes 3,819 4.26 −0.15
Turnout 89,551 94.89 +0.35
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal National Peter Dutton 48,631 56.72 +1.59
Labor Michael Gilliver 37,101 43.28 −1.59
Liberal National hold Swing +1.59
This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2016 Australian federal election in Queensland § Dickson.[]
2016 Australian federal election: Dickson[160]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal National Peter Dutton 40,519 44.56 −3.45
Labor Linda Lavarch 31,769 34.94 +3.62
Greens Michael Berkman 8,971 9.87 +3.45
Family First Ray Hutchinson 3,868 4.25 +2.45
Independent Thor Prohaska 3,217 3.54 +3.54
Liberal Democrats Doug Nicholson 2,589 2.85 +2.85
Total formal votes 90,933 96.63 +0.89
Informal votes 3,172 3.37 −0.89
Turnout 94,105 93.47 −1.42
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal National Peter Dutton 46,922 51.60 −5.12
Labor Linda Lavarch 44,011 48.40 +5.12
Liberal National hold Swing −5.12
This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2019 Australian federal election in Queensland § Dickson.[]
2019 Australian federal election: Dickson[161]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal National Peter Dutton 44,528 45.93 +1.23
Labor Ali France 30,370 31.33 −3.66
Greens Benedict Coyne 9,675 9.98 +0.13
One Nation Carrol Halliwell 5,022 5.18 +5.18
Independent Thor Prohaska 2,302 2.37 −1.04
United Australia Steve Austin 2,176 2.24 +2.24
Animal Justice Maureen Brohman 1,831 1.89 +1.89
Conservative National Richelle Simpson 1,044 1.08 +1.08
Total formal votes 96,948 95.64 −1.02
Informal votes 4,416 4.36 +1.02
Turnout 101,364 93.67 −0.18
Two-party-preferred result
Liberal National Peter Dutton 52,968 54.64 +2.95
Labor Ali France 43,980 45.36 −2.95
Liberal National hold Swing +2.95

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