‘Something is rotten in the state of Australia’: Peter Dutton blames police and Labor for rise in antisemitism

Opposition leader says national moral fog' has made antisemitism permissible in speech at Sydney Opera House

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Federal opposition leader Peter Dutton has blamed police and Labor political leaders for what he calls an unprecedented and unchecked rise in antisemitism, declaring something is rotten in the state of Australia".

In a speech on Wednesday evening in which he forcefully defended Israel and framed a series of domestic policy proposals in the context of the Israel-Gaza conflict, Dutton also accused Foreign Minister Penny Wong of being reckless" in advocating for Palestinian statehood as essential to sustainable Middle East peace. He called her remarks to a security conference in Canberra on Tuesday night utterly illogical, ill-timed and inappropriate".