EFFIE BATEMAN | Lifestyle | Contact
Opposition leader Peter Dutton has today accused the Greens party of being anti-semitic, just moments after agreeing with neo nazi hecklers that ‘Welcome to Country’ shouldn’t be performed on ANZAC day.
At an ANZAC Day dawn service in Melbourne last Friday morning, a ‘Welcome to Country’ ceremony was interrupted by a group of people who could be heard booing and shouting, “We don’t want to be welcomed,” and “This is our country.”
Some of these people were later identified as neo nazis, including a member of the European Australian Movement, who was the first Australian to be charged for publicly making a Nazi salute in Victoria.
Though this act has been widely condemned by politicians, Dutton has since admitted that he agrees with the hecklers that the Welcome to Country ceremony should only be reserved for ‘significant events of our country’, and that after listening to a lot of veterans in the space, he thinks ‘the majority view would be that they don’t want it on that day.’
These comments came just moments after a reporter asked Dutton about Vivek Singha, the liberal candidate for Fowler, who was forced to apologise for X posts he made in 2023, where he referred to Indigenous Australians using derogatory language.
Somehow, Dutton was able to segue this conversation into sledging the greens, stating he “won’t take a lecture from the prime minister who has a relationship with the Greens’ as ‘this is an antisemitic, Jew-hating party.’
It’s unknown if Dutton believes his last-minute culture wars will help him nab some votes for the election this Saturday, or if he’s simply having an extinction burst now that it’s becoming clearer that Australians aren’t that fussed on ‘woke agendas’ when they’re struggling to afford groceries.
More to come.
