Editing Peter Dutton (section)

==Early years==
Dutton was born on 18 November 1970 in the northern [[Brisbane]] suburb of [[Boondall]].<ref name="APH"/> Dutton is the great-great-grandson of the pastoralist [[Squatting (Australian history)|squatter]] and politician [[Charles Boydell Dutton]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Bartlett |first1=Samuel |title=Everything you need to know about Peter Dutton |url=https://au.news.yahoo.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-peter-dutton-043018941.html |website=Yahoo! News |access-date=4 June 2022 |date=6 December 2021 |archive-date=30 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220530055117/https://au.news.yahoo.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-peter-dutton-043018941.html |url-status=live }}</ref> He is also a descendant of Captain Richard James Coley, who was Queensland's first [[Sergeant-at-arms|Sergeant-at-Arms]], who built Brisbane's first private dwelling and who gave evidence confirming the [[mass poisonings of Aboriginal Australians]] at [[Kilcoy Homestead|Kilcoy]] in 1842.<ref>{{Citation | author1=Langevad, Gerry | title=Captain Coley - Queensland's first Sergeant-at-Arms | publication-date=1979-01-01 | publisher=Royal Historical Society of Queensland | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/38258770 |access-date=22 March 2021 |archive-date=7 May 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210507104031/https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/38258770 | url-status=live}}</ref>

Dutton is 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 Anglican School, Bald Hills|St Paul's School, Bald Hills]].<ref name="King-2014" /> He worked [[cash in hand]] at a [[butcher]] shop during his school years, and his parents separated shortly after he graduated.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://iview.abc.net.au/video/FA2211H002S00|title=Kitchen Cabinet Series 7 Episode 2|date=22 August 2023|first=Annabel|last=Crabb|publisher=[[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]]|quote='''Peter Dutton''': I was very shy.<br />'''Annabel Crabb''': What brought you out of that?<br />'''PD''': I think working in a butcher shop, which I did from sort of Grade 7 until I started uni.<br />'''AC''': Grade 7?<br />'''PD''': After school, yeah.<br />'''AC''': What, so when you were, like, twelve or something?<br />'''PD''': Yeah, after school, so, um...<br />'''AC''': Was that legal?<br />'''PD''': Uh... and it was a cash job as well, for most of it.<br />'''AC''': Oh, great!<br />'''PD''': So, as I look back, perhaps... perhaps not.<br />'''AC''': Your mum and dad got divorced when you were in your teens, is that right?<br />'''PD''': Yeah, well, I think they sort of, whilst I was the eldest of five, I think in hindsight they waited until I'd finished school and then, yeah, they separated shortly thereafter.<br />'''AC''': Was that a massive shock?<br />'''PD''': I think I felt sort of disappointed and angry at the time, that they weren't able to work things out.|access-date=28 August 2023|archive-date=16 September 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240916020649/https://iview.abc.net.au/show/kitchen-cabinet/series/7/video/FA2211H002S00|url-status=live}}</ref>

Dutton joined the [[Young Liberals (Australia)|Young Liberals]] in 1988 aged 18. 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 (Australian politician)|Tom Burns]], a former state [[Australian Labor Party|Labor]] leader, in the safe Labor seat of [[Electoral district of Lytton|Lytton]].<ref name="King-2014" /><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.peterdutton.com.au/about/maiden-speech/|title=Maiden Speech |author=Peter Dutton (Dickson)|website=peterdutton.com.au |date=13 February 2002 |archive-date=3 June 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170603100441/http://www.peterdutton.com.au/MeetPeter/MaidenSpeech.aspx |url-status=live|via=Hansard, pp54–56}}</ref>

===Education===
According to a leaked transcript of his academic record, in 1989 Dutton failed four of six subjects in his first year of a [[Bachelor of Business]] degree at [[Queensland University of Technology]]. This prompted him to join the police force and study business part time, graduating a decade later.<ref>{{cite news |author=Grigg |first=Angus |date=23 August 2013 |title=Leadership spill: Peter Dutton, the aspiring prime minister who failed uni |url=https://www.afr.com/politics/peter-dutton-the-aspiring-prime-minister-who-failed-uni-20180823-h14cqn |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220603045352/https://www.afr.com/politics/peter-dutton-the-aspiring-prime-minister-who-failed-uni-20180823-h14cqn |archive-date=3 June 2022 |access-date=7 April 2025}}</ref><ref name="Schubert-2009">{{cite web |author=Schubert |first=Misha |date=7 October 2009 |title=To some he's the messiah, to others a duplicitous polly |url=http://www.theage.com.au/national/to-some-hes-the-messiah-to-others-a-duplicitous-polly-20091006-glh1.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150312180654/http://www.theage.com.au/national/to-some-hes-the-messiah-to-others-a-duplicitous-polly-20091006-glh1.html |archive-date=12 March 2015 |access-date=24 May 2014}}</ref><ref name="APH">{{cite Au Parliament |name=Hon Peter Dutton MP |mpid=00AKI |access-date=2021-11-07}}</ref>

===Police career===
Dutton graduated from the Queensland Police Academy in 1990. He was a [[Queensland Police]] officer for nearly a decade, working in the drug squad in Brisbane in the early 1990s.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.peterdutton.com.au/MeetPeter/AboutPeter.aspx |title=About Peter Dutton|work=PetterDutton.com.au |access-date=21 December 2014 |archive-date=9 May 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150509195611/http://www.peterdutton.com.au/MeetPeter/AboutPeter.aspx |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/federal-election-2013/guide/dick/ |title=Federal Election 2013 - Dickson Results|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation |date=11 October 2013 |archive-date=12 January 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150112064655/http://www.abc.net.au/news/federal-election-2013/guide/dick/ |url-status=live}}</ref> He also worked in the sex offenders squad and with the [[National Crime Authority]].<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://player.whooshkaa.com/shows/sky-news-the-bolt-report |publisher=Sky News|title=The Bolt Report |website=Whooshkaa |archive-date=22 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170222193829/https://player.whooshkaa.com/shows/sky-news-the-bolt-report}}</ref> In 1999, Dutton left the Queensland Police, having reached the rank of detective [[senior constable]].<ref name="King-2014" /><ref>{{cite news |last=Gothe-Snape |first=Jackson |date=11 May 2019 |title=Divided by politics but united by trauma |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-11/federal-election-peter-dutton-ali-france-united-by-trauma/11057856?nw=0&r=HtmlFragment |work=ABC News |location= |access-date= |archive-date=11 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220111210954/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-11/federal-election-peter-dutton-ali-france-united-by-trauma/11057856?nw=0&r=HtmlFragment |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=19 July 2017 |title=Peter Dutton tough cop on the beat for new Home Affairs |url=https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/peter-dutton-tough-cop-on-the-beat-for-new-home-affairs/news-story/b22103c11c28cc5be95ef065abdae9df |work=The Australian |location= |access-date= |archive-date=5 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230405104612/https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/peter-dutton-tough-cop-on-the-beat-for-new-home-affairs/news-story/b22103c11c28cc5be95ef065abdae9df |url-status=live }}</ref> Documentation filed in the [[District Court of Queensland]] in 2000 describes his resignation as being prompted by a loss of driving confidence after a [[car crash]] in August 1998. During a covert surveillance operation, he rolled his unmarked [[Mazda 626]] car while in pursuit of an escaped prisoner who was driving erratically. Dutton suffered numerous injuries in the accident, and was hospitalised briefly and bedridden for a week. He sought damages of {{AUD|250,000|link=yes}}, equivalent to {{AUD|{{Inflation|AU|250000|1998|r=0}}}} in {{Inflation/year|AU}}, from the escaped prisoner's insurance company but dropped the claim in 2005.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-11/federal-election-peter-dutton-ali-france-united-by-trauma/11057856 |title=Examining why Peter Dutton left the force reveals a strange coincidence |last=Machan |first=Emma |date=11 May 2019 |website=ABC News|language=en-AU |access-date=1 January 2020 |archive-date=28 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200128173647/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-11/federal-election-peter-dutton-ali-france-united-by-trauma/11057856 |url-status=live}}</ref>

===Business activities===
On leaving the police, he and his father founded the business Dutton Holdings, which was registered in 2000; it operated under six different trading and business names.<ref name="ABN Lookup-2014">{{Cite web |url=http://abr.business.gov.au/ |title=ABN Lookup |date=1 November 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000815074306/http://abr.business.gov.au/ |archive-date=15 August 2000 |url-status=dead |access-date=3 June 2017}}</ref> The company bought, renovated, and converted buildings into childcare centres. In 2002 it sold three childcare centres to the now defunct [[ABC Learning]], which continued to pay annual rent of {{AUD|100,000}}, equivalent to {{AUD|{{Inflation|AU|100000|2002|r=0}}}} in {{Inflation/year|AU}}, to Dutton Holdings.<ref>{{Cite news |title=How Peter Dutton got rich |last=Reynolds |first=Emma |website=news.com.au |date=23 August 2018 |url=https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/leaders/peter-dutton-and-his-journey-to-millionaires-row/news-story/a9608d1e2c0cbccf99055c72254a6655 |access-date=25 May 2022 |archive-date=1 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220301081620/https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/leaders/peter-dutton-and-his-journey-to-millionaires-row/news-story/a9608d1e2c0cbccf99055c72254a6655 |url-status=live }}</ref> Dutton Holdings continued to trade under the name Dutton Building & Development.<ref name="ABN Lookup-2014" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://abr.business.gov.au/AbnHistory/View/51010897793|publisher=Australian Business Register|title=Historical details for ABN 51 010 897 793}} Record extracted 04 May 2025.</ref>