Of course this is about guns. The political puppet show around it is disgraceful |
The death of 15 innocent people has been used shamelessly and immorally as a political debating point. I hope the vast majority of Australians are disgusted.
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Josh Frydenberg, no doubt gutted and shattered in the heat of the moment and therefore should be given leeway, should seriously now consider what he said. He said that Prime Minister Anthony Albanese should take personal responsibility for the death of those innocent people, including a 10-year-old-girl.
In a moment of quiet reflection, Josh - who knows what it is like to have a 24/7 public job with impossible demands - should understand the effect that such a statement would have on Anthony. Prime Ministers are human, too.
After that reflection maybe he should pick up the phone, and not apologise, but just say sorry.
Former prime minister John Howard accused the Prime Minister of lack of leadership in failing to do enough to stop anti-Semitism and using gun control as a diversion. Again, suggesting the Prime Minister is responsible for the deaths.
This is the man who sat mute in 1996 when the then disendorsed Liberal but successful independent member for Oxley, Pauline Hanson, spouted her poisonous and factually inaccurate "swamped by Asians" speech.
Howard said he disagreed, but agreed with her right to say it. Hypocrite. Those........