From geopolitics to the voice the Liberal leader is a political fabulist, dishing up provocations to get voters’ attention and using a deadly crisis to monster foesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast
From geopolitics to the voice the Liberal leader is a political fabulist, dishing up provocations to get voters’ attention and using a deadly crisis to monster foes
Australia isn’t a substantial player in Middle East politics globally. But given the bruised sensibilities of the significant diaspora communities here, any sensible person occupying a public position would take a breath. Perhaps even summon up some gravitas. But in the way of things, Wong invoking the quality of restraint became a fresh cue for abandoning restraint in the Australian political conversation.
Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup This opposition leader makes things up regularly, sometimes several times a day, with growing confidence. He’s fully intent on shaping his own reality, and why wouldn’t he be? Dutton’s accusations and inventions are amplified much more often than they are factchecked, parsed or decoded, because there is so much bollocking and barracking in the public square, people can’t see the bullshit.Authoritarian populists like Dutton set the media truth-seeking tests we cannot afford to fail.
The voice referendum has opened the door to all manner of awfulness, both strategic and opportunistic. Added to the national trauma of a referendum campaign that didn’t feel like a fair fight is the unsettling domestic fallout of the horrors in Israel and Gaza.
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