Four Corners is taking a look at the election campaign and the people who want to be prime minister.
Here is an early taster from ABC News‘ Rory Callinan of ABC Investigations, Louise Milligan, Ben Schneiders, Ben Butler, Alex McDonald, and Neil Chenoweth
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton failed to declare for two years his interest in a family trust that operated lucrative childcare businesses when he was a cabinet minister, a Four Corners investigation has found.
Documents obtained by Four Corners and ABC Investigations show that while Mr Dutton’s register of interests disclosed his wife Kirilly’s interests in childcare operations at the time, he did not declare between 2014 and 2016 that he was a beneficiary of the RHT Family Trust that owned the businesses, as required by parliamentary rules.
The investigation also analysed more than 20 years of property records tied up in complicated and opaque trust structures and found that the Dutton family, with Peter Dutton’s father Bruce, made almost $15 million in profit from buying and selling private childcare businesses as well as dozens of residential property deals.
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And, of course, those child care businesses likely earned money from government over which Dutton presided. No conflict of interest there if you are a Liberal...