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The Federal Opposition leader is being widely criticised today for using a historical slur against gay men.
The Australian public are once again being reminded of how gaffe-prone Peter Dutton can be – now that the Australian media is no longer providing him with a guard of honour to the 2025 election.
His most recent doozy comes as icing on the cake after a nightmare four weeks that see him caught pulling a runner from Cyclone Alfred, serious accusations of historic insider trading, and very poorly received comments about young mothers in the workforce.
And after his new referendum idea went down like a lead balloon, he’s now he’s reverted back to what he knows best: snarky pot shots.
The man now known as ‘Temu Trump’ made yesterday’s gay slur while criticising the Prime Minister’s handling of Chinese navy vessels conducting live-fire drills in Australian waters last month.
“[Albanese’s response] was the weakest, most limp-wrist response you could see from a leader,” Dutton said.
The term “limp-wrist” has been used historically as a slur against homosexual men. The Cambridge dictionary describes it as “an extremely offensive word used to describe a man whose behaviour is thought to be typical of a gay person”.
However, Dutton stands by his comments, and is in fact doubling down.
Today has seen Temu Trump front a press conference where he used even less subtle homophobic slurs, and said that Albanese should’ve ordered the Defence Force to torpedo the Chinese navy ships and start a major conflict.
With the Liberals looking more and more likely up to ten independent candidates is their once blue-ribbon inner-city electorares, it seems that getting urban gay and lesbian voters offside is not the best strategy for an Opposition who needs to win 18 seats to gain majority.
The Liberal Party has since apologised for Dutton’s initial homophobic slur, and the subsequent homophobic slurs he made in an effort to stand by his initial homophobic slur.
A spokesperson for Dutton says ‘no offence was intended’ to the LGBTI community when he described Anthony Albanese as a ‘shirt-lifting poofter’ who was ‘as camp as a row a tents’ and ‘probably too busy with Mardi Gras to know that Australia was under attack haha’.
