On Thursday Feb 29, 2024, Sussan Ley, deputy leader of the Opposition, released the following statement on X: “If you live in Frankston and you’ve got a problem with Victorian women being assaulted by foreign criminals, vote against Labor. If you do not want to see Australian women being assaulted by foreign criminals, vote against Labor.”
Deputy Opposition leader Sussan Ley’s faux “concern” for the safety of women of Dunkley seems to have evaporated now that the polls are closed.
Her famously racist tweet about dangers of released indefinite detainees into Frankston has now been removed.
It has done its job: crisis over. Really??
Any utterances by Sussan Ley about the safety of non-Anglo, non-blonde, non-boomer women targeted for inappropriate sexual attention by fellow Anglos seem to be non existent: even where sister party members and parliamentary employees are involved.
Is this strange? Not if you are dancing to Advance Australia or Dutton’s dog-whistling tune.
To Advance, Dutton and Ley, any non-Anglo asylum seeker in Australia is many times more threatening or criminal than any pale citizen.
To these LNP leaders, white South African farmers or Ukrainian are more entitled to sanctuary than other races affected by war or genocide.
Dutton distorts the threat from asylum seekers who break the law in many ways. Any “bad apples” get locked up for three times as long. This ensures that the rehabilitative effect of return to a functional community is denied. It is all very strange, given the convict origins of our colony and the empathy that history should engender.
To be Advance, Dutton or Ley is to deny the social or economic contribution of not so rich, brown asylum seekers. To trumpet and distort the crimes of a handful is a racial propagandist’s dream.
In office, the LNP maintained a “golden ticket” or open door policy for any rich foreigners, however.
This particular blonde, Anglo, boomer, sexual assault survivor is not especially afraid of a few non-Anglos released by the High Court after prolonged detention.
Typical Aussies, on the other hand, sometimes look pretty dangerous to me.
But that’s just experience talking.