The son of a former state Premier, who was convicted of drink-driving and causing a violent car crash which was a factor in the end of his dad’s political career, has come out in support of Peter Dutton’s son. An image of Tom Dutton, 18, holding a bag of white powder was splashed across the news in the past week. Nick Bracks’ father Steve was Premier of Victoria in 2007, when 20-year-old Nick totalled the family car after a multi-day binge.
Journalism for the curious Australian across politics, business, culture and opinion. “I feel sorry for him,” Nick said of Peter Dutton’s son. “I wouldn’t condone the behaviour, but he is an 18-year-old kid experimenting with things like a lot of other kids,” Nick said on The Project Monday night.
“Growing up being referred to as, ‘you are the son of this person’ ...
it makes you think, well, what do I need to do for people to say me as Nick Bracks and not the son of Steve Bracks?” “Being that young and having people say these different things to you for something that you’ve done in your own private life can become a difficult thing to deal with.” Last week an image, which went out via Tom Dutton’s social media, wound up making newspaper front pages. “Birthday day treat.
Hello how u goin”, the quickly-deleted image was captioned. “I haven’t been in touch with Tom but I would love to speak to him, if he ever wanted to,” Nick said on television. Back in 2007, 20-year-old Nick had suffered an injur.
