Dutton has brought the shame of American hate politics to Australia because the LNP have no politics or policies of their own to offer multicultural Australia.  Their only approach to the economy has been the chant “We are better money managers”! No, they proved that was false from the very day Abbott became the PM in 2013. They have, however, been better, Yes, at breaking promises, the nation’s bank and cultural disrupters. They have been at the forefront in attacking Immigrants, Muslims, Africans, and Chinese but even worse, Asylum Seekers and Indigenous First Nation People and their children. They have campaigned against LBTGI’s, mythologized Education, denied the real history of this nation, and embarrassed us in the face of the rest of the world chanting “we are white and the best”. They are purposely trying to divide us with the same tactics as applied in America by the extreme right of the Republican party.

As a consequence, they were thrown out of office with only Dutton who once offered to resign after being caught out publicly with Abbott and Morrison for their “Boom Gate” racist humor. Dutton was once head of the LNP’s extreme right’s Monkey Pod Room and was the only one wanting to be the Opposition leader after their election debacle. As soon as appointed he raced to America.

When in April Peter Dutton first announced his party’s opposition to a Yes vote, he spoke repeatedly of a “Canberra Voice”, an echo of the anti-Washington rhetoric that has become standard fare on the American right – populist politics 101. When last month in parliament he outlined his opposition in more detail, he again maligned the “Canberra Voice”, the “Canberra-based Voice” and the “Canberra knows best” approach of Anthony Albanese. His speech was replete with other US-style allusions.

First he seemed to be trying to elevate “our forefathers” who drafted the Constitution into an Australian equivalent of America’s founding fathers: patriots acclaimed with blind reverence, and sometimes even vested with powers of clairvoyance. “They were methodical, they were meticulous and they used their minds,” he said of these Australian penmen, “and, to their eternal credit and foresight, they produced a document which has created the greatest country in the world.”

As well as evoking an Australian version of American exceptionalism, he seemed intent on consecrating the 1901 Constitution with the same biblical status as its US counterpart: “Our Constitution has given us laws, liberties, protections and privileges which have forged the modern nation which we love and cherish today.”