EndemicEarthling<p>Just a few years ago then Immigration Minister <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/PeterDutton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PeterDutton</span></a> was very keen to welcome white farmers from <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/SouthAfrica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SouthAfrica</span></a> as potential <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/refugees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>refugees</span></a> to Australia, (despite the alleged threat they faced being more or less a complete beat-up).</p><p>But when <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Palestinians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palestinians</span></a> are being slaughtered by the thousands in collective punishment for the <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/WarCrimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WarCrimes</span></a> of <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Hamas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hamas</span></a>, Dutton instead calls for Foreign Minister <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/PennyWong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PennyWong</span></a> to be sacked due to her briefly advocating (in a very minimal manner) for the restraint of violence against non-combatants in adherence with <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/InternationalLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InternationalLaw</span></a>.</p><p>I know pointing out blatant hypocrisy and <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>racism</span></a> from Dutton is hardly ground-breaking material, but it really does need to be repeated, because too many people still refuse to see it, despite months of his fear-mongering and <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/dogwhistling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dogwhistling</span></a> over an <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Indigenous</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/VoiceToParliament" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VoiceToParliament</span></a>. In the footsteps of <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>, Dutton is continually testing the waters of increasingly hateful rhetoric as a way of ensuring media attention, and has not yet discovered a line that will cause a sufficiently large chunk of voters to desert him.</p><p><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Auspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Auspol</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Coalition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Coalition</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palestine</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a></p>