US author Naomi Wolf has taken to Twitter to accuse Energy Minister Angus Taylor of anti-Semitic dog-whistling'.
"Mr Taylor seems to recall that you were in Oxford, you'd have to have that discussion with," he said.
Energy Minister Angus Taylor recalls Naomi Wolf being at Oxford in 1991 even though she completed her Rhodes scholarship in 1988.It is not until more than seven minutes into the conversation that the staff member seems to realise he is talking directly to Wolf. "It's an accident that this phone call was picked up. It is after midnight in Australia, as in, it is approaching 1am," the spokesman said.
"It was 1991, and a young Naomi Wolf lived a couple of doors down the corridor," he told Parliament.
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