PRESS RELEASE: Dutton Deconstructed Book Release

Dutton Deconstructed Book Release
Authorised by Pat Comben, 22 Riverview Road, Riverview
March 18, 2025, 07:00 GMT
A new 253 page book Dutton Deconstructed, concerning the sayings, actions and criticisms of Opposition Leader the Hon. Peter Dutton MP has been released today.
Comben comes to the view that Dutton is like no other prime minister, or prime ministerial aspirant Australia has ever seen’. ”
IPSWICH, QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA, March 18, 2025

A new 253 page book Dutton Deconstructed, concerning the sayings, actions and criticisms of Opposition Leader the Hon. Peter Dutton MP has been released today.

Written by former Labor, Queensland Cabinet minister, Pat Comben the book canvasses Dutton’s political career.

In Dutton Deconstructed former Queensland Cabinet Minister Pat Comben poses the question, Can Australia risk electing Peter Dutton as Prime Minister?

With its comprehensive inclusion of observations, comments and opinions, along with published quotes from the man himself, this book should ring alarm bells for many Australians.

Particularly when others have labelled the current Opposition Leader Peter Dutton with a range of terms from ‘dull’ through ‘Manichean’ and ‘pitiless’ to ‘dishonest and a hypocrite’

Does Dutton have the necessary character and attributes to lead Australia as a future prime minister? Or will his divisive and right-wing views, plus a ‘pathological’ negativity create a less-tolerant, overly conservative society?

Former Liberal prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, and others seem to think so.

Fully referenced Dutton Deconstructed contains a host of assessments of Dutton:

‘The attack by Peter Dutton on Malcolm Fraser’s refugee policies is outrageous. We have had a succession of inadequate Immigration Ministers in recent years, but Dutton is setting the standard even lower’. ((Ian Macphee, former Liberal Immigation minister ‘Dutton risks jeopardising the fight against terrorism: Labor’, SBS, 23 November 2016.)

‘Loud, lazy, disrespectful, wholesale labelling of entire communities for the actions of a tiny minority, aid and abet the isolation and resentment that the extremists pray upon.

‘Dutton’s populist break up big stick betrays Liberal principles. … Cheap anti-business sentiment is fuel for the left and right-wing populists causing havoc in Europe and the US. No-one should be rushing to bring it here’.iii

‘The lack of candour on the part of this Minister i[Dutton] n not frankly disclosing such matters to this Court, together with the past conduct of this Minister in this proceeding, has been the source of considerable hesitation in the making any further order – even with the consent of the Applicant. … It is to be hoped that this Minister will comply with the order now made. In the absence of explanation, non-compliance with an order of this Court constitutes a serious contempt’.iv

‘Peter Dutton has apologised to his Labor opponent Ali France for suggesting she was using her disability as an “excuse” for not living in the Dickson electorate.’ (Ms France lost her leg saving her son from being hit by a car and could not, at the time, find a ‘wheelchair accessible Dickson home).

‘They aren’t the Liberal Party anymore; they’re the Luddite party. They have a leader (Dutton) who is set on division, defined by his denial, his division and destruction, fronting the dregs of a departed government that the Australian people ditched for a reason.v

Under them [the Coalition], there was to be one new frigate in 2034; under us, there are to be four by 2034, the first in 2030. Under them, the first infantry fighting vehicle was to be in 2029; under us, it will be in 2027 and made in Australia. Under them, the first heavy landing craft was to be in 2035; under us, it will be in 2028 and made in Western Australia. Under them, manufacturing missiles was to start in 2035; under us, it starts next year. Under them, contracts for armed drones were cancelled; under us, the first armed drone arrives this year.vi

Comben comes to what he terms, ‘an unavoidable assessment that Dutton is like no other prime minister, or prime ministerial aspirant Australia has ever seen’.

Copies of Dutton Deconstructed can be delivered to Brisbane Media outlets, or Express posted to other areas.

Pat Comben, 22 Riverview Road, Riverview, Qld: 0467 006 302.
[email protected]