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<\/p>\n\u201cArriving back in Australia from his overseas trip, the prime minister stepped off the plane proudly wearing a T-shirt with the name of a band, Joy Division, whose origins are steeped in antisemitism,\u201d Ley said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe name was taken from the wing of a Nazi concentration camp where Jewish women were forced into sexual slavery. At a time when Jewish Australians are facing a rise in antisemitism, when families are asking for reassurance and unity, the prime minister chose to parade an image derived from hatred and suffering.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is not a slip of judgment, and he cannot claim ignorance. He was told about the dark origins of this band on a podcast in 2022. He even admitted that it is very dark. He knew, he understood and still he wore the T-shirt.\u201d<\/p>\n
When told about the origins of the band name in the podcast referenced by both Ley and the Australian, Albanese responded: \u201cI wish I didn\u2019t [know that] … It\u2019s very dark, isn\u2019t it? But everything about the band is so dark .\u201d<\/p>\n
Ley said Albanese\u2019s decision to wear the shirt \u201craises questions about values, the wrong values, and it is a profound failure of judgment for the prime minister of this country in full knowledge of the meaning behind the name of this band\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo choose to wear this T-shirt is an insult to all, and it fails the basic tests of leadership. He should apologise immediately,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
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Opposition Leader Sussan Ley during her 90-second statement before question time.Credit: Alex Ellinghausen<\/p>\n
Unknown Pleasures has been ranked among the best albums of all time by various music publications. Rolling Stone last year ranked the album cover as the greatest of all time.<\/p>\n
Liberal MP Julian Leeser, who is Jewish, said the prime minister should apologise. \u201cThis is a serious error of judgment from the PM. It sends a terrible signal,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
But Julian Hill, Labor\u2019s assistant Minister for Citizenship, Customs and Multicultural Affairs, said \u201cSussan Ley\u2019s internal [polling] must now be so bad if this is where the Liberal Party is at\u201d.<\/p>\n
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\u201cTheir love for Sky will tear them apart.\u201d<\/p>\n
Liberal MP Zoe McKenzie said she thought most people knew the band name was a reference to Nazi concentration camps. \u201cI say the crime is wearing band T-shirts when you\u2019re a man of a certain age. He could have picked a better one,\u201d she told the ABC\u2019s Afternoon Briefing program.<\/p>\n
Labor assistant minister Patrick Gorman said he thought Ley\u2019s speech was odd. \u201cThere\u2019s big issues in the world, I don\u2019t think band T-shirts of mainstream bands is one of them,\u201d he told the same program. \u201cIt\u2019s OK for the prime minister to like a band, a well-loved band\u2026 their music has been around for a few decades.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Executive Council of Australian Jewry, NSW Jewish Board of Deputies and the Zionist Federation of Australia declined to comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cArriving back in Australia from his overseas trip, the prime minister stepped off the plane proudly wearing a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-246015","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}