Peter Dutton

Bullies rely on power to protect them, not online anonymity | Yassmin Abdel-Magied

I’ve had more death threats than flat whites. But almost everyone who abused me did so using their real names

Yassmin Abdel-Magied

01, Dec, 2021 @6:30 AM

The Australian parliament, the whole arse-covering and ego-driven apparatus, should be paralysed by shame and remorse | Katharine Murphy

The Jenkins review into parliament’s culture should make everyone, not just women, weep. But Scott Morrison is responsible for making change – this reckoning presented on his watch

Katharine Murphy

30, Nov, 2021 @9:34 AM

Taiwan thanks Australian PM and defence minister for grim warning over China

Taiwan says Scott Morrison and Peter Dutton’s comments reiterated the ‘need to guard against the use of Chinese force’

Daniel Hurst in Canberra and Helen Davidson in Taipei

30, Nov, 2021 @12:00 AM

Should politicians like Peter Dutton suck up Twitter’s hot-gives and -takes or pursue vindication? | Paul Daley

Australia’s defence minister was not too busy to see through a defamation case against an unemployed, crowdfunded refugee advocate

Paul Daley

26, Nov, 2021 @7:00 PM

‘Mistakes of the 1930s’: Peter Dutton ramps up China rhetoric as Keating calls him a ‘dangerous personality’

Defence minister says price of inaction on Taiwan could be higher than coming to its aid, as he talks of ‘dark clouds’ in the region

Daniel Hurst

26, Nov, 2021 @5:17 AM

Coalition MPs may not be plotting to topple Scott Morrison but succession jockeying is absolutely under way | Katharine Murphy

The internal disunity is noisy enough to create the impression the prime minister isn’t in full command of his troops

Katharine Murphy

24, Nov, 2021 @8:10 AM

Peter Dutton wins defamation case against refugee activist Shane Bazzi over tweet

Justice Richard White awards $35,000 in damages to Dutton over tweet that labelled him a ‘rape apologist’

Paul Karp

24, Nov, 2021 @1:55 AM

Peter Dutton attacks Penny Wong on China declaring he aims to deter ‘aggression’ on Taiwan

Defence minister’s comments on Labor senator labelled ‘appalling’ and ‘inappropriate’

Daniel Hurst in Canberra

23, Nov, 2021 @10:26 AM

Penny Wong decries Morrison government’s position on Taiwan as ‘most dangerous election tactic in Australian history’

Shadow foreign affairs minister claims PM ‘desperately playing politics on China whenever he’s in trouble’

Daniel Hurst Foreign affairs and defence correspondent

22, Nov, 2021 @11:01 AM

Judge orders New Zealand man who had visa revoked by Peter Dutton to be freed from detention

Federal court rules the former home affairs minister failed to consider Shayne Montgomery’s claim of Aboriginality

Paul Karp

19, Nov, 2021 @8:11 AM

Here’s why on Remembrance Day politicians should be kept away from the commemorations | Paul Daley

Look out for talk of the drums of war, and Australian leaders summoning the sacrifices of the dead to justify their strategic decisions