Why Peter Dutton adopted extremely strict parenting style – not even allowing his kids to go to the park or use public toilets

Peter Dutton has revealed the sad reason why he would never let his kids go to the park or use public toilets.

The opposition leader opened up about his strict parenting style during ABC’s Kitchen Confidential on Tuesday night.

He told the show’s host Annabel Crabb that the ten years he spent as a police officer before entering politics had yellowed his view of human nature.

“Even the way you raise your children,” Dutton said, preparing a fish chowder on the program.

“You know, you shouldn’t lose sight of them because you’ve seen some horrific cases where children have been abducted or assaulted.”

Crabb then urged him what he would not let his children do.

“I just think, you know, in parks and public places like that, you know, going to public toilets when you’re out,” Mr. Dutton replied.

“Yeah, I think it’s always on your mind because they’re pretty important events.”

Mr. Dutton has three children: two boys he shares with his wife of 20 years, Kirilly, and a 21-year-old daughter from his first marriage.

He revealed on the show that his daughter was the “best mistake I ever made.”

Later in the programme, as Crabb and Mr Dutton washed down the soup with a glass of South Australian Riesling, he revealed that he had suffered from a form of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a result of his career with the Queensland Police Force. .

“I was 19 years old when I started the police force and I had a pretty sheltered life in hindsight and I just wasn’t exposed to that side (of life) and the brutality of some people, the depravity of others,” he said .

“I can remember going to a crime scene where a young girl had been raped and to this day I can still remember the full name of the victim, the perpetrator, dates of birth and times and can I remember those still imagine the scene.

“Because that was the most traumatic moment in that person’s life and you share that journey with them.

“It shocks and I think it also scars. I mean, people would now, I think, refer to it more as a kind of PTSD or just the mental hangover of seeing that repeatedly.”

The ABC presenter noted that the opposition leader went ‘straight to law and order’ – with Mr Dutton previously serving on the police force between 1990 and 1999.

Mr Dutton married Kirilly (pictured with their children) in July 2003

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Crabb also confronted Mr. Dutton on the show about so-called “racist remarks” he had made when the pair shared a slice of custard with brown butter and rum.

Mr Dutton made the relevant comments in 2016, alleging that Malcom Fraser’s government made a mistake in resettling Lebanese refugees in the 1970s.

At the time, he defended the comments, claiming that “of the last 33 people charged with terrorist offenses in this country, 22 of those people have a second- and third-generation Lebanese Muslim background.”

“I don’t understand how you can look at that, apart from that it’s a racist comment,” Crabb told the Conservative politician.

Mr Dutton admitted he should not have made this comment and says he has apologized for this before.

Outside of MrDutton, Kitchen Cabinet’s final season will feature a wide variety of political figures, including the National Party’s Bridget McKenzie and former Greens and now Independent Senator Lidia Thorpe.

Kitchen Cabinet is available to stream on iView.