How Peter Dutton was created
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Peter Dutton: A Political Adolescent
Peter Dutton first joined the Liberal Party when he was about 18 years of age. He ran for Queensland Parliament at the end of the Jobeo-Cipidison era, which also shows what a contrarian Dutton is that he would run in a Labor seat for a Conservative Party. And towards the end of his police career, he joined the family business and got involved in running childcare centres. As soon as he couldn't, he ran for federal parliament in the seat of Dixon on the outskirts of Brisbane, and he defeated Cheryl Purnow. That was when he entered federal parliament.
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