Political “Cultural Wars” continue during Australia Day

Peter Dutton, Opposition Leader: I just say to all the Australians that we live in the best place in the world and Australia Day is an opportunity to celebrate exactly that.

The days of shame for Australia Day and our country are over if we choose a coalition government.

Laura Single, the main political correspondent: Australia’s Day has become controversial in recent years, but this year, an election year, it has become part of a political narrative about labeling and weakness, and who is leading ‘cultural wars’

Peter Dutton: The desire of the Laburists to continue these cultural wars and to try and to induce left and the prime minister to try to place the green all the time. He knows that the green does not like Australia’s day, so he is always unclear on these issues.

But the prime minister I think is out of his depths on this and many other issues. We want a place that can come together and if we do this, we can be our best.

Reporter: Peter Dutton said that you and the government you lead you are obsessed with cultural wars and if a coalition…

Anthony Albanese, Prime Minister: Excuse me?

Reporter: He said you are obsessed with cultural wars.

Anthony Albanese: Peter Dutton said this?

Journalist: He said a coalition …

Anthony Albanese: You have to be talking to her, seriously. He said this seriously?

Reporter: He said a coalition government means that Australians are no longer ashamed of Australia’s Day. What is your answer to this?

Anthony Albanese: I’m here on Australia Day and it’s unfortunate that Peter Dutton is not here.

Laura Single: For those of you who have been on vacation so far, the political year has been going on for several weeks and is in the race.

The leaders of the two political parties have been all over the country. The prime minister has made many of his beloved infrastructure reports. The opposition leader has been more about the atmosphere of the issue: asking voters what the government has ever done for them?

Peter Dutton: The prime minister has spoken of the last six months of the last six months of his term spoke about what he can do in a second term of government, but no Australian can tell you what he has done in the first mandate.

Interest rates have increased 12 times, food, electricity, insurance, all doubles, and families are really struggling with the cost of living the Labor costs created through their budget decisions, endlessly on the horizon.

Laura Single: the question of the government’s achievements and attacks on the prime minister’s efforts to run a course ‘in the middle of the’ as ‘weak’ have been at the forefront of Peter Dutton’s armor for months.

On Friday, at the National Press Club, the prime minister began to respond.

Reporter: What is the main achievement that true believers will see proudly after 20 years?

Anthony Albanese: keeps us out of the recession; 1.1 million jobs; Taking inflation from 6 to 2; making sure that people’s living standards take care that they do not be left behind.

Supplementation of NBN; ending, finishing gonski; returning the fall into Medicare; And most importantly, we are taking the steps, and I informed in December about the universal delivery of children’s care.

Laura Single: As for weakness, the prime minister wants people to consider the scratched record of the opposition leader for accountability and appearance.

Anthony Albanese: I tell you what the weakness is, the weakness is not to have the courage to come to the national press club. The weakness is to hold a press conference in quarter and two, before the question hour begins at two o’clock in the last six months and not in front of the Assembly Press Gallery.

Laura Single: bypassing all the free personality assessments of the leaders is the issue of teams. The prime minister was postponing the subject on Friday as well.

Anthony Albanese: The hardness is also about the way you run. You know we did; Bill Shortten resigned this week, we replaced Bill, we had the oath ceremony on Monday.

I think we are still waiting, if something has not happened this morning, he cannot even make a decision on who his minister is in the shadows for the outside affairs, who the spokesmen are.

Laura Single: Twenty -four hours later…

Peter Dutton: I am also very pleased today to join David Coleman and Melissa McIntosh, who are here with me, and I want to make some announcements today about some changes to the first coalition panel.

Laura Single: The issue of a reorganization of the opposition had begun since the end of November when Senate leader Simon Birmingham announced that he was leaving politics.

At the top of the first leader Paul Fletcher’s departure, this meant the need for some major changes.

Tensions on whether former first defender and Voice supporter Julian Leeser would return, as well as clashes among senior colleagues pushed the decision for nearly two months, but apparently the delay was the government’s fault.

Peter Dutton: Well, some things. Of course, we knew that there would be a reorganization with the government, with Bill Shorte who essentially resigned because he could not work with Anthony Albanese, and we wanted to see whether or not there was further machinery of government changes, and We can answer after that.

However it is always difficult when you have such talent.

Laura Single: Promoted in the high position of external affairs is David Coleman.

Another great winner was Senator Jacinta Nampajinpa Price, who adds the minister to the shadows for the government’s efficiency in her indigenous affairs portfolio.

But it is not precisely clear what is effective to have a minister in the shadows for the efficiency of the government, as well as a minister in the shadows in reducing government waste, the work of South Australia MP James Stevens.

Peter Dutton: I am very happy that Jacinta has not only the ability and intellect, but there is a real impetus to be able to find efficiency in order to stop losing taxpayers.

Laura Single: But for now, it seems that we can’t escape the politicization of even the gloomy memories.

Today is the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp, where Australia will be represented by Foreign Minister Penny Wong and Prosecutor General Mark Dreyfus.

Peter Dutton: I think when we have the Jewish community living in fear in our country, and when you see the attitude and rhetoric embraced by Penny Wong and the prime minister, when you see the positions Penny Wong has fallen into conflict with our close allies , including the United States, in the United Nations votes, I think it is the most inappropriate person to go and represent our country, and I think the Prime Minister should be more sensitive and I think the prime minister should show Leadership here.

Mark Dreyfus, the Attorney General: He has been grotesque, uses this word again to see the growth of anti -Semitism since October 7th.^th But it has been just as grotesque to see efforts made to politicize or commemorate the Holocaust or to combat anti -Semitism.

Jane Hume, Minister of Finance Shadow: For Mark Dreyfus to come out 15 months later and say the problem is politicization is stupidity. He said one thing, that anti -Semitism should not be a left or right issue – this is exactly right.

Penny Wong, Foreign Minister: This is not a day for politics. It’s not time for politics. This is a time to remember the killing of six million people, six million Jews, and to say never again and that is why we are here.

If we really mean never again, then we have to work together throughout politics and among the beliefs. And I am confident that the Australians can do it.