Cartoon: Fiona Katauskas
Independent MP Helen Haines is in a critical condition after being hit by a car outside her electorate office in Wangaratta in what the Prime Minister has described as an “attack”.
Double standards are pretty standard in Australia – so standard that the past couple of weeks have been full of them in politics and barely an eyebrow has been raised.
The Treasurer has urged progressive voters to stop mocking, scolding and “cancelling” One Nation supporters, warning that dismissing those drawn to the far right risks deepening the divisions it seeks to exploit.
