Queensland Greens Senator Larissa Waters has issued a public apology for the defamatory comments she made about Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton. Waters admitted that on Feb. 21, she published a media release on her website and Twitter and made comments during a press conference that contained false and defamatory statements that Dutton, a Liberal politician, was a rape apologist. She also accused Dutton of seeking to conceal and dismiss reports of rape and said he had no sympathy for victims of rape. Dutton took legal action against Waters, and she has now issued a public retraction of her comments and an apology. “I accept that there was no basis for those allegations and that they were false. I unreservedly apologise to Minister Dutton for the hurt, distress and damage to his reputation I have caused him,” Waters wrote on March 24. Dutton, who once lambasted Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg …