‘There aren’t people on Mars’: Anthony Albanese criticises Sussan Ley’s first fleet analogy

Prime minister says deputy Liberal leader's Australia Day speech was disrespectful' and Katy Gallagher called it nuts'

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Anthony Albanese and Katy Gallagher have rebuked the deputy Liberal leader, Sussan Ley, for drawing parallels between the arrival of the first fleet to Elon Musk's SpaceX mission to reach Mars, describing the comparison as disrespectful" and nuts".

But Ley is standing by the comparison as her office accuses the prime minister of lacking the imagination" to understand Australia's founding story.

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