Editing Peter Dutton (section)

===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>