Back in May, Laura Tingle ruthlessly attacked Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s announcement that a future Coalition government would modestly cut immigration.
Tingle immediately played the racism card in an article claiming that “the opposition leader has opened the doors to migrants being blamed not just for housing shortages but for all these other problems, too”.
“The significance of a major political leader playing so divisive a card on our community is a step that shouldn’t go unnoticed, no matter how inured to it we have become over the years in the wake of Pauline Hanson and “boat people” politics”, Tingle bemoaned.
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