Prime minister says deputy Liberal leader’s Australia Day speech was ‘disrespectful’ and Katy Gallagher called it ‘nuts’
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Anthony Albanese and Katy Gallagher have rebuked the deputy Liberal leader, Sussan Ley, for drawing parallels between the arrival of the First Fleet to Elon Musk’s SpaceX mission to reach Mars, describing the comparison as “disrespectful” and “nuts”.
The prime minister said on Monday that the analogy Ley made in her Australia Day address was “very strange”.
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