The Victorian Labor Party has been criticized for using a meme on social media that mocked Opposition Leader Peter Dutton and his wife, Kirilly.
The Victorian Labor Party has been criticized for launching a personal attack on Opposition Leader Peter Dutton and his wife, Kirilly, after the state branch posted a meme mocking the couple on its Facebook page. The image of Dutton and his wife uploaded to social media sites on Monday morning was taken from a 2019 interview in which Kirilly Dutton declared her husband was “not a monster” and detailed some of the death threats he had faced in his then role as minister for home affairs.
The full quote was: “He is a really good man. He is a really good father and he’s not a monster.” Victorian Labor repurposed the picture and added the captions “justifying dating your new partner to your friends who don’t like him” and “we all know that one couple”. The post was meant to be a humorous dig capitalising on perceived voter dislike of Dutton in Victoria. All political parties are increasingly using jokes and memes on social media to convey their messages to voters who don’t follow mainstream news. But Coalition home affairs spokesman James Paterson, a Victorian senator, said the meme was offensive and in poor taste. “Family should be off limits from political attacks,” he said. “Labor would be rightly outraged if the Liberal Party ever went after Anthony Albanese’s family like this. “This just reeks of desperation from a government lagging in the polls and bereft of any solutions to the cost of living crisis facing Australians. Smearing Peter Dutton and his family is all they have left.”Victorian Labor Party state secretary Steve Staikos played down the personal nature of the meme, saying “it’s not a personal attack – that’s a mischaracterisation of the post”. “It’s a screenshot from a newspaper article that they willingly participated in. It was posted as a bit of commentary, like a lot of memes are by all political parties.”Much like Anthony Albanese’s partner, Jodie Haydon, Kirilly Dutton rarely grants interviews and rarely appears alongside her husband at public event
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