Peter Dutton, who oversaw the destruction of the coalition at the 2025 federal election, has been given a job he is not qualified for by the LNP Queensland Premier David Crisafulli on the board of the Queensland Investment Corporation, overseeing investments in critical minerals and defence industries.

What makes it even worse, than just Peter Dutton’s failing as a political leader, is that he has a long history of fraudulent conduct as a minister and also allegations of insider share trading when he was a federal MP.

Queensland Investment Corporation is Queensland’s state-owned investment manager with more than $135 billion in assets under management, and someone as shady as Peter Dutton should be nowhere near it.

The ABC reported (10/4/26)

Mr Dutton’s appointment was announced on Friday alongside that of former Queensland Labor assistant minister Michael Choi.

The state government said the appointments were designed to “help drive investment in key growth opportunities for Queensland in defence industries and critical minerals”.

Queensland Investment Corporation is Queensland’s state-owned investment manager with more than $135 billion in assets under management.

Queensland Treasurer David Janetski said Mr Dutton would provide strategic advice on accelerating development through the flagship Sovereign Industry Development Fund.

“These appointments will bring world-class expertise to the Queensland Investment Corporation, strengthening its ability to driving investment in our state, helping grow our economy to benefit all Queenslanders,” Mr Janetzki said. (Click here to read more)

The Queensland government has tried to cover up Peter Dutton’s appointment to some degree by also appointing a former Labor Party politician, Michael Choi, to the Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC) board at the same time.

The LNP will claim it shows impartiality, but what it really shows is the LNP knew Peter Dutton’s appointment to the QIC was a rort that should never have happened.

The Labor Party didn’t fall for Premier David Crisafulli’s trickery and have been critical of Dutton’s $134,000-a-year appointment. The SMH reported (10/4/26)

Shadow Treasurer Shannon Fentiman criticised the appointment on Friday as another “jobs for mates appointment”.

She said the appointments have gone from sneaky to blatant abuse of taxpayer money.

“At a time when Queensland families are struggling to pay their bills the LNP are giving and creating lucrative jobs for former LNP MPs and donors,” she said.

“Sadly the only train running in Queensland right now is the Premier’s gravy train.” (Click here to read more)

Peter Dutton’s insider share trading in banks

In February 2025, a couple of months before the May 2025 federal election, it was reported that Peter Dutton bought bank shares the day before a major government announcement in 2009, as per the below video.

News.com reported in February 2025:

Peter Dutton’s share-trading during crucial junctures of the global financial crisis is in Labor’s sights, prompting demands that he reveal whether he knew “sensitive information” before buying up shares in the big banks.

As the Prime Minister prepares to call an election, a forensic analysis of Mr Dutton’s declarations to parliament reveals he notified parliament of a share-buying blitz involving the big banks the day before Labor announced a bailout in 2009.

But Mr Dutton has slammed the claims as muckraking accusing Labor’s “dirt unit” of trawling his financial records to create controversy. 

Between October 2008 and March 2009, Dutton updated his register of interest 13 times to indicate that he had either bought or sold shares.

News.com.au has confirmed he had not previously bought or sold any shares for the previous three years, according to his parliamentary records. (Click here to read more)

Canstruct and Paladin

Peter Dutton was the Minister for Immigration (2014–2017) and Minister for Home Affairs (2017–2021) and oversaw 2 massive fraudulent contracts with dodgy companies, Canstruct and Paladin worth over $2.3 billion in total.

In October 2022 I published an article titled “Peter Dutton and his dodgy $1.8 billion deal with Canstruct who had no staff, no revenue and no assets. Will the NACC investigate?” which starts off:

Peter Dutton and the previous federal government awarded a company called Canstruct International a total of $1.8 billion in government contracts in very suspicious circumstances given they had no staff, no assets and no revenue when they won their initial contract.

This is relevant now as it was raised again in parliament in February 2022, as per the below video, and given Dutton and the deal would have to be a prime candidate to be investigated by the new National Anti-Corruption Commission. (Click here to read more)

Paladin was another $2 shelf company, with a head office at a beach shack on Kangaroo Island, that Peter Dutton gave $532 million in inflated government contracts to. (Click here to read more)

It raises the question whether or not Peter Dutton is currently under investigation by the NACC for his corruption while a federal politician. I wonder if Queensland Premier David Crisafulli asked the NACC before they appointed Peter Dutton.

The Queensland Investment Corporation has $135 billion in assets under management, and now fraudster and alleged inside trader Peter Dutton will have a say where the money goes. Do you think Peter Dutton will try and skim some off the top for himself?

In a time when the Liberal Party and National Party (LNP in Queensland) are losing thousands of voters daily to One Nation and other parties and will be lucky to survive, you would think they would stop the corruption.

But no, Queensland Premier David Crisafulli is more interested in looking after his boy Peter Dutton than the long-term future of the LNP.

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