The storm over Immigration Minister Peter Dutton’s remarks on migrants, and Bill Shorten’s likening him to Pauline Hanson, show highly-selective historical memories.
We all know. of course, that the Liberals are the party of racism and xenophobia. But, wait a minute. Who said, at the time of the fall of Saigon in April, 1975, with desperate Vietnamese refugees besieging boats and aircraft to escape: ‘I’m not having hundreds of f–king Vietnamese Balts coming into this country with their religious and political hatreds against us?’ Well, it was Gough Whitlam, actually.
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