Peter Dutton continues to look in the rear vision mirror for his strategies. The same old shtick is coming back. Stranger danger, Muslim asylum seekers could be ISIS. The ALP doesn’t know how to protect us. It’s back to black with Ray Hadley and Sky News After Dark. A shadow passed over this country in 2013 when we voted Nope Nope Nope in. The ALP has begun to lift it but lift the fog only too slowly and we voted “No”. That’s how dark it still is.
Foreign Minister Penny Wong has hardened her language over the past week, calling for a ceasefire to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza and to pointedly say that the way Israel defends itself matters.
“I don’t believe it’s in our country’s best interests to be increasing that intake at the moment without certainty around who individuals are and the fact that they’re going to be perfect Australian citizens, or as best as we could hope for,” Dutton told radio host Ray Hadley.
His comments come at a time when there have already been predictions that, on the back of the ugly divisions the Coalition was happy to stir up over the Voice, it would target migration at the next election.
To do so on the back of a horrific and complex dispute like the one in the Middle East, would set an ominous tone for our political future and almost certainly ensure these age-old tensions were imported to Australia.
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