Peter Dutton alienated voters with ‘arrogant and aggressive’ approach, Labor election review finds
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jan/23/peter-dutton-alienated-voters-labor-election-review
Peter Dutton alienated voters with ‘arrogant and aggressive’ approach, Labor election review finds
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jan/23/peter-dutton-alienated-voters-labor-election-review
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Watch out Labor, he’ll sue you for defamation next.
I love how the LNP won’t release their review because it would ‘defame’ Dutton. Essentially a blanket admission that the voters hated his guts and he contributed to a loss that may have completely destroyed the party. Take a bow Dutton! That’s quite an achievement we all thank you for.
Look at this evil looking Voldemort mofo lol. He has eyes like a snake who eats children. I can’t think who would vote for him.
Well, “no shit Sherlock”
I think running ‘headfirst at Trumpism’ played a massive part to his downfall but let’s never forget [Peter Dutton’s unpopularity ‘broke several records’](https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/nov/25/labor-coalition-peter-dutton-2025-federal-election-australian-electoral-study) and even now he is still so easy to despise, despite his wife claiming ‘he is not a monster’. FFS he is holding ‘potential litigation’ over his own party if they release a report about how ‘truly shit he is’…
Arrogant, aggressive, corrupt (he’s earned a lot of money from government funding for childcare), but also poorly prepared (the uncosted nuclear idea, ending work from home), unimaginative (classic putting the boot into renewables and public servants, copying every shite idea from Trump) and I am sure more things we can come up with here.
I wish I was an idiot so I’d only figured out right wingers are like this like a year ago instead of it frustrating me for my entire life 🫠
Imagine finding a review of your performance defamatory, and then not having the self awareness to think that maybe you need to make some changes 🤣
The was formally conducted by Kev and Bazza over a few pints down the local.
To be fair, a sensitive, nice Dutton who’s here to help wouldn’t have worked either 😅
I mean, appearing to have no clue what so ever was also a big part of it.
Didn’t he like, break records with how unpopular he was with both right and left-wing people? He’s impressively awful.
What do we need a review for? The party that would melt the homeless if it meant more money in their pockets was found to be full of bad actors? I can’t believe the millionaire gangsters who just happened to also be politicians somehow failed to win over your average person that is living through bad times that were created by someone who shit himself in a maccas. These morons need to have their government pensions taken away, why they fuck are they able to still have a wage after decades of failing at their jobs?
Take notes Susan. Take notes.
BAHAHA!!! Honestly credit where credit is due ..
Dutton threatens to sue the Liberal Party for defamation over their election findings… So Labor release their findings.
AUSTRALIA CAN’T WAIT for Dutton to prove he isn’t ‘arrogant and aggressive’. Do it.
I concluded my investigation 15 years ago finding that he was a CU Next Tuesday. You’re welcome.
my perception is that it wasnt necessarily his approach but just his personality in general. scomo at least had that used car salesman appeal while there was nothing likeable about dutton. he just wasnt relatable or likeable to the average voter.
Almost anyone but dutton and id feeling sorry for how hard theyre getting rekt
Dutton eroded the liberal party for over a decade to end up king of shit mountain, but never actually stopped and wondered if he knew wtf he was doing
Is this going to be one of those “autopsies” the republicans do in America that identifies the problem they insist on not learning from?
He was a Temu Trump. Nobody liked him, nobody liked his ideas.
Albo isn’t great but at least he isn’t THAT!
Here’s my review. They can have it for free.
1. Dutton was a knob
2. Australia doesn’t want to spend $600B on nuke power, and we don’t understand the LNP’s pathological hatred of renewable energy.
I feel like arrogance is pretty low on the reasons people cannot stand him.
We remember, we were there. It was crazy how disconnected he was from the public ie putting his son in front of a camera to talk about how hard it is for him to fund a home. If Aussies have one thing going for them, at least it’s being able to pick out the disingenuous.
He was Voldemort on the inside and on the outside. Simple as that, fuck off
Spuds out for Dutto
Labor was given an absolute gift with Dutton. He had a public image that was extremely difficult to soften, and the Liberal Party and their media allies failed to soften it. The fact that he is not particularly charismatic, and a voice that sounds like a lawnmower two blocks away didn’t help. Especially when he had very few policies to sell, and what he did have was rubbish.
It was like showing up to a big match and finding out that the opposing team haven’t trained in a month and somehow all have acute food poisoning of a particularly explosive kind.
in other news – the sky is blue and fire is hot.
He also had shit policies
He was such a sniveling arsehole.
He’d waffle on with something controversial or fucking stupid, then he’d fuck off and hide for a few days throwing assorted Liberal morons out front to take the heat.
He’s a fucking coward and the electorate recognised that.
I mean, obviously, did it really need a review to see just how unpleasant his overall demeanor is?
He’s a complete cuk. No more or less. Wants to be tuff but just… Can’t.
This runs the risk of being defamatory.
But at least this was the LNP don’t have to release their findings
Yet liberals and their donors want more of same to self destruct over..