Peter Dutton has addressed the alleged terror plot which was aimed at him, currently in the Queensland courts. (An arrest was made in August)

The person charged is a child – 16-years-old – so there are no details legally allowed about their identity. The reporting says they went to a “prestigious private school” which doesn’t seem to be relevant at all, except to maybe challenge some people’s beliefs about who might think of allegedly committing this sort of act.

Dutton told the West Australian event:

Well, it’s been a brutal business, no question about that. It’s the reason my three children have been cured any interest in politics whatever, that we see as a small blessing. I feel an immense sense of pride, being able to work in the job that I work in, and – it takes a decision at some point in your life you want to abandon your anonymity and you want to contribute to a country you love very much. And that’s a decision that I took probably off my policing career, obviously, and seeing some of the injustices there, but also off my small business career and I believe very strongly that the Liberal Party has the ability to keep our country strong and I think we face significant head winds.

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