Honestly, you couldn't invent this stuff. What pray tell are we supposed to judge Dutton on if not his views or actions?
Stuart Robert is truly the MP that keeps on giving. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-05-27/federal-election-live-labor-majority-nationals-leadership/101102002#live-blog-post-1211652917
You can't judge Peter Dutton on his views', Liberal MP says
Peter Dutton has been the centre of his fair share of controversy during his more than 20 years in parliament.
In 2015, he was caught on a "hot mic" making a joke about "water lapping at the door" of Pacific Island nations because of climate change and the next year he made inflammatory remarks about refugees' literacy levels.
He was also the only opposition frontbencher in 2008 to boycott then prime minister Kevin Rudd's apology to the Stolen Generations and personally voted no "and encouraged people to do the same" to same-sex marriage in the 2017 postal vote.
Ultimately, Dutton voted in favour of same-sex marriage in parliament after majority support for it was made clear by the postal vote.
But Liberal MP Stuart Robert says you can't judge the next Liberal leader on his views or actions.
"You can’t judge someone on either comments they’ve made, or decisions they’ve done when they’re exercising their either personal conscience or their particular viewpoint," he told RN Breakfast.
"Just because someone’s got a different view to the ABC, respectfully, doesn’t make them terrible or wrong.
"It simply gives them a different view, and that has got nothing to do with the size of his heart or the quality of his character or the capacity of his intellect, respectfully."
