Bridget Archer was cast as an apologist for child sexual abusers, while horrors in the Middle East prompted absurd claims
‘The braying on all fronts was dialled up to 11 this week. There was no issue too serious to weaponise.’ The opposition leader, Peter Dutton and deputy leader, Sussan Ley.‘The braying on all fronts was dialled up to 11 this week. There was no issue too serious to weaponise.’ The opposition leader, Peter Dutton and deputy leader, Sussan Ley.n a Thursday in early July 2019, a rookie Liberal MP rose to her feet in the House of Representatives to give.
Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup If her colleagues had any brains, they might engage and listen to the survivor in their midst before braying like combatants in a cage fight. But the braying on all fronts was dialled up to 11 this week. There was no issue too serious to weaponise.Our Australian morning briefing breaks down the key stories of the day, telling you what’s happening and why it mattersIt wasn’t just in the chamber. As sometimes happens in the bro-zone of 2GB, things got hysterical.
Things got worse. Archer was deluged with abuse. Keyboard warriors, high on the mission of letting no good deed go unpunished, came out in force, hissing in the inbox, on social media platforms.This was not just bad. Disgraceful, more like. A conflagration during the coming days, if that’s where this goes, will inflame diaspora communities around the world and send another shudder through the global economy at a time when many people are already struggling to make ends meet. Things are fraught enough for the Australian Security and Intelligence Organisation to worry publicly aboutAnthony Albanese condemns ‘slaughter of innocent people’ by Hamas – videothat Labor was afflicted by “deep division” and “confusion”.
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