I gasped in disbelief when I heard our Prime Minster invoke his beloved mother, when blocking the return of family members of ISIS fighters to Australia this week.  He said: “My mother would have said, ‘If you make your bed, you lie in it’." And he doubled down the next day, saying of the 11 women and 23 children: “I have nothing but contempt for these people.”

I spent seven years of my life working for the Australian Labor Party and have mostly observed Anthony Albanese to be a forthright and compassionate man.

This kind of dog-whistling cruelty is not acceptable from him or from any Australian Prime Minster.

P&I founder John Menadue, who spent a........

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