Dutton refuses to answer when asked if he’ll help his son buy a house

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton knocked back repeated questions on whether he would help his son to buy a home after Harry Dutton joined his father on the campaign trail and said he was “saving like mad” to come up with a deposit for a property. In a bid to appeal to Gen Z and Millennial voters frustrated by the housing crisis, Dutton spruiked his campaign launch policy in the marginal Brisbane seat of Ryan on Monday. The pledge allows first home buyers to claim the interest paid on their mortgage as a tax deduction – worth up to $12,000 a year for five years – when they buy a newly built property.

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has dodged questions on whether he would help his son Harry pay for a house deposit. Credit: James Brickwood Dutton had been seeking to reshape his campaign to focus on housing and focus on voters struggling to enter the market, after a launch in which he also pledged a one-off tax offset of $1200 for middle-income earners. Harry, a 20-year-old apprentice carpenter, told reporters it was tough to buy a home and he was “saving like mad”.



“I’m saving up for a house and so is my sister and a lot of my mates but it’s almost impossible to get in the current state,” he told reporters in Brisbane on Monday. Asked if he would help Harry, the opposition leader said he did not want Australian parents to have to dip into their savings to help their kids. Asked a second time directly why he would not help his son buy a home, Dutton refused to engage with the question.

Loading “I haven’t finished the excellent points I was making,” he said..