Opposition Leader Compares Anti-Semitism to Major Gun Massacre

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. “That’s the parallel that I’m making,” he told the Today show, “To the absolute absence of leadership from the prime minister at the moment, which has given rise to those in the Jewish community talking about feeling unsafe in our country....