Election 2025: Peter Dutton’s son Harry spruiks dad’s housing message

Peter Dutton has made the unusual move of bringing out son Harry on the campaign trail, in a bid to sell his pitch to young prospective first-home buyers.

Harry Dutton, flanked by Peter Dutton and local Liberal MP Maggie Forrest in the seat of Ryan in northwest Brisbane, helps sell the party policy to young prospective first-home buyers. Picure: Richard Dobson / Newswire

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Peter Dutton has made the unusual move of bringing out son Harry on the campaign trail, in a bid to sell his pitch to young prospective first-home buyers.

The Opposition Leader, campaigning in his home city of Brisbane on Monday, invited his son to front the press pack and share his experience trying to get a foothold in the housing market.

“It’s been great being on the campaign trail with him,” Harry Dutton said. “Going all over and seeing all different people and all different industries.

“I am saving up for a house and so is my sister, Bec, and a lot of my mates, but as you probably heard, it’s almost impossible to get in, in the current state.

“So, I mean, we’re saving like mad, but it doesn’t look like we’ll get there in the near future. But we’d love that to change.”

Both Anthony Albanese and Mr Dutton were spruiking their housing policies on Monday after they both announced policies aimed at first-home buyers at the weekend.

Economists have slammed both policies, claiming they would add to demand and make housing more inaccessible for those ­without.

Mr Dutton defended his policy – under which mortgage repayments would be tax deductible for five years for first-home buyers who bought a new construction, for up to $650,000 of the ­mortgage.

“We are the only party that is addressing the supply side and by providing an opportunity to young Australians – look, I moved around the country over the course of the last three years, there were many messages of people under pain under Labor’s cost-of-living crisis,” he said.

“It kills me to hear young ­Australians saying I’m working hard, we’re both working hard, we’re putting money aside, we just can’t afford – we don’t think we’ll ever be able to afford a home. That’s the common story.

“Now, I’m not going to accept that as prime minister of this country. I want to make sure that we can do everything we can if we’re fortunate enough to win the election to restore that dream of home ownership and this is the way we can do it.”