After initially appearing to walk back comments comparing pro-Palestine protests outside the Sydney Opera House last year, to the Port Arthur Massacre—that killed 35 people and wounded 23—Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has come out on morning television to say, “I don’t resile from that at all.”
He said the comparison was about the prime minister’s leadership rather than the gravity of the two events, saying Anthony Albanese had failed to act to try to reduce anti-semitism in Australia.