Peter Dutton then goes back to the nine years he spent as a police officer, which is the version of him he wants everyone to remember. He spent much longer as a property developer (about three decades) and he has been a politician for twice as long as he was a cop.

This would be like me claiming I understand everything there is to know about hospitality because I spent 10 years in the industry while going to uni years and years ago.

You can read more about who Dutton is, here – Lech Blaine’s excellent Quarterly Essay from a bit ago, Good Cop, Bad Cop

Dutton:

I think I demonstrated as a police officer I was always very serious about protecting the community and I did it for 10 years and very proud of my service as a police officer and you deal with some of the most difficult circumstances. For me, seeing women in domestic violence situations or seeing children having been sexually abused or taking a statement from somebody who had been sexually assaulted, that had a huge impact on me and it does to this day. I have always been influenced by how I can use the position that I’ve had to make our community safer. As home affairs and immigration minister, I brought in a lot of people, good people into our country. From all parts of the world, from war torn parts of the world. I cancelled the visas of over 6,000 people who had committed serious domestic violence offences, sexual offences against and children who had been involved in the importation of drugs and hard-core drugs that lead to kids breaking into houses and stealing cars to fuel the drug habit. I’m proud of that outcome. I’m not going to step back from it. Those numbers of doportations have fallen under a cliff. They don’t see it as a priority. Would I do everything I could within my power to keep Australians safe? Absolutely.