Both major parties are wildly out of step with the views of people they must woo if they want to win the next federal election.
Already a subscriber?Sure, Labor isn’t running a candidate and, sure, it’s Scott Morrison’s old electorate of Cook, which is among the safest Coalition seats in the country, and certainly the safest in Sydney.Louie DouvisNot Peter Dutton, apparently. The opposition leader’s official website records visits to the electorates of Dobell, Ryan, and Hughes in the past month, and to western Sydney, but no sightings of him down south in what is known as The Shire.
Instead, this week, we see this extraordinary voter apathy on the one hand but rhetoric by both major parties on the other that seems wildly out of step with the views of people they must woo if they want to win the next federal election.shocked many people in his speech at the Sydney Opera House on Wednesday. He spoke of events in Gaza since October 7 through the prism of a rising tide of antisemitism in Australia, which he linked to Palestinian protests at the same building on October 9.
“While no one was killed during the October 9 protests, the events at the Sydney Opera House were akin to a Port Arthur moment in terms of their social significance,” Dutton said.His comments were widely condemned, including by the Liberal premier of Tasmania.But Tasmanian Liberal MP Bridget Archer described Dutton’s comments as “incredibly disrespectful” and “wholly inappropriate”.
Western Sydney is home to hundreds of thousands of people with links to the Middle East. Not all of them are Muslim. Senior government figures insist Penny Wong’s remarks on a two-state solution have to be seen as part of a calibrated international effort to ramp up pressure on Israel.This was because she said the recognition of a Palestinian state is “the only hope to break the endless cycle of violence” in the Middle East and a two-state solution would help ensure long-term security for Israel and further undermine Hamas.
But it was apparently too much for some in the room and bitter differences erupted between Wong and Industry Minister Ed Husic, who has long led the internal charge for a more balanced position on the conflict from the government.
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