Peter Dutton

The campaign to soften Peter Dutton's image has little hope against his record in government of building the new surveillance state.听Ugur Nedim reports.

Australian听parliamentarians can and do use their position to听protect their thin skins. It is welcome news that Shane Bazzi听won an appeal overturning a ruling that he defamed听Peter Dutton. Binoy Kampmark reports.

Since becoming the minister for offence, Peter Dutton has used every opportunity to spruik Australia鈥檚 鈥渘eed鈥 to prepare for war against China. ANZAC Day provided another opening for the hawk. Pip Hinman reports.

The propaganda war against China and Russia got a whole lot worse in the past week. The very real danger of war either in our region, or in Europe, was made abundantly clear, argues William Briggs.

Federal ministers have been brazenly beating the war drums in the latest round of verbal aggression against China,听escalating听the government鈥檚 anti-China propaganda to a dangerous new level, argues Peter Boyle.

New allegations about the brutal behaviour of Australian special forces officers in the war on Afghanistan have added听impetus to the calls for justice and an end to听Australia鈥檚 involvement听in the听war, writes Pip Hinman.

Despite a Federal Court ruling that a detainee from MITA must be released, minister Peter Dutton is moving to torture them further, report Michael O鈥橰eilly and Pip Hinman.

I was stunned to read听听that Peter Dutton鈥檚 home affairs department is rife with bullying and harassment.听You learn something new every day.

I just assumed any department headed by Dutton would be a happy, friendly place, with puppies running around and flower gardens and lambs and group hugs every hour.

With the re-election of the Coalition government, conservatives have become emboldened to intensify their agenda of transferring even more wealth and power to the already dominant at the expense of the rest of us, writes Nick Fredman.

Refugee rights activists rallied outside home affairs minister Peter Dutton鈥檚 electorate office in Queensland on May 11. They are hoping Dutton will lose his seat at the federal election on May 18.

The bizarreness of Australian politics was summed up in multi-millionaire mining magnate Clive Palmer鈥檚 election advertisement accusing Labor of 鈥渟upporting the big end of town鈥. He's right, though he is in no position to point the finger, writes Carlo Sands.

In the aftermath of the terrorist attack on mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, in which 50 people were killed, some of the comments from those with a public platform have been breathtakingly offensive.