Peter Dutton Parents: Meet Alisa and Bruce Dutton.

Peter Dutton is an Australian politician and the current leader of the Opposition, holding office as the leader of the Liberal Party of Australia since May 2022.

Peter Dutton was born in the northern Brisbane suburb of Boondall on November 18, 1970, to Alisa and Bruce Dutton.

Peter Dutton is the oldest of five siblings. His mother, Ailsa Leitch, was a childcare worker, and his father, Bruce Dutton, was a builder. Peter Dutton is the great-great-grandson of Charles Boydell Dutton, a pastoralist squatter and politician.

Peter Dutton is also a descendant of Captain Richard James Coley, Queensland’s first Sergeant-at-Arms, who built Brisbane’s first private dwelling and testified in 1842 about the mass poisonings of Aboriginal Australians at Kilcoy.

Peter Dutton started a construction business with his father and joined the Liberal Party as a teenager and was elected to the House of Representatives at the age of 30 in the 2001 election.

He was appointed Minister for Employment Participation following the 2004 election. Under Peter Costello, he was promoted to Assistant Treasurer in January 2006. A

fter the Liberal-National Coalition was defeated in the 2007 election, he was appointed to the Shadow Cabinet as the Shadow Minister for Health, a position he held for the next six years.