The opposition leader shamelessly politicises tragedy while demanding someone else do something about the world’s nasties
‘With no obvious twinge of shame or embarrassment, he likened an 9 October rally at the Opera House to the massacre of 35 people at Port Arthur.’‘With no obvious twinge of shame or embarrassment, he likened an 9 October rally at the Opera House to the massacre of 35 people at Port Arthur.’The opposition leader Peter Dutton’s determination to convince Australian voters they are on a path to an ill-defined catastrophe is collapsing under the weight of its own absurdity.
The ‘bitch and fold’ hasn’t always worked so well for Labor. Will Peter Dutton play along now? | Karen MiddletonWith no obvious twinge of shame or embarrassment, he likened a rally at the Opera House on 9 October last year to the massacre of 35 people at Port Arthur almost exactly 28 years ago.Before our antipodean Marcellus produced that hollow and vile comparison with its clear disrespect for the victims of the 1996 atrocity, Dutton pumped up trepidation here by referring to events elsewhere.
An important element of this exploitation is to accuse those in authority – police, the courts, Labor governments – of making Australians more vulnerable to the nasties rocking the world. And on Wednesday Dutton made that clear. Of course, none of those terrifying factors existed here in what Dutton said was “the safest, most egalitarian, and most prosperous democracy of them all”.But clearly, his salient message was that it wouldn’t take much to turn Australia into an embattled Ukraine or a population escaping in boats.
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