Peter Dutton's extreme makeover: smiling, drinking and the AC/DC test

Malcolm Turnbull’s rival discussed his ‘wonderful family environment’ and his ‘self-deprecating sense of humour’

On radio, no one can see whether you smile. And in the past that has been just as well for Peter Dutton, who by his own admission is not one prone to showing the glint of his teeth.

Instead the former minister for immigration and home affairs, the man responsible for keeping asylum seekers on Manus Island and Nauru, has maintained his perpetually glowering persona across the airwaves – uncompromising, hardline. Recent focus groups conducted by GetUp revealed voters in his own electorate variously called him “uncompromising”, “hard” and “cruel”.

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