Calls by the opposition leader to halt arrivals from Gaza have fuelled doubts over whether he ever apologised for earlier comments about Muslim immigration.
Apologies come in different varieties. Formal and informal, public and private, genuine and insincere.And then there’s an apology by Opposition Leader Peter Dutton that belongs in another category again.
But many within the community heard him doing exactly that; in his eyes, their lives in Australia were mistakes.His father-in-law, Assad, came to Australia under Fraser in 1976. Assad, he says, had served with the British army in the 1940s and in Australia went to work for BHP before he was killed in a steelworks accident.“Comments like that go to someone like him. He would be extremely offended to hear those comments.
She has a PhD in representations of Muslim men in Australian film and TV and in 2019 published an academic paper about Dutton’s comments and their framing in the media. Then they sat down to the meal he had prepared – a smoked cod chowder paired with a South Australian riesling. The conversation became more pointed. The topic of racism poked through like a fishbone.
Dutton’s 2016 comments struck him as racist and stupid, coming from a university-educated politician who’s “definitely not dumb”.“I’ve never, ever heard him retract that statement.”for an apology. He could point to a speech, an interview, a letter, a date, a forum.
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