Opposition Leader Peter Dutton made great strides this week in his ongoing mission to push the Liberal Party past “right wing” to “right out of its damn mind”. He described Foreign Minister Penny Wong’s statements on Palestinian statehood as the most “reckless act of a foreign [affairs] minister I have seen in my 22 years”, which is an interesting way to refer to the longstanding bipartisan policy that a two-state solution is the best way to guarantee lasting peace between Israel and its neighbours. He also compared the societal impact of the October 9 pro-Palestine rally at the Sydney Opera House to that of the mass shooting in Port Arthur in 1996.
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