Byron’s Anti-Vaxxer Community Also Furious With Albanese For His Most Recent Band Shirt

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT

It seems Prime Minister Albanese cannot win this week, after upsetting another unhinged corner of the internet with his most recent attempt at being a cool Gen-X dad.

First, the PM was facing backlash after stepping off the Royal Air Force plane from Washington wearing a Joy Division T-shirt – a move Opposition Leader Sussan Ley has labelled a ‘profound failure of leadership’ – because apparently the name of the band has ‘Nazi’ origins.

It is not known which concerningly-online member of the Coalition informed Sussan Ley of the backstory of the 1980s British post-punk band’s ironically dark name, but taking it to the floor of Parliament House has backfired spectacularly on the Coalition.

Literally every single Australian except one or two similarly brain-rotted Sky News announcers have rejected Sussan Ley’s allegations of ill-will from the Prime Minister – but the incident does give an insight into the Liberal Party’s attempts to ‘moderate’ themselves away from the far-right fringes of the political spectrum that Peter Dutton dragged them towards.

And the only way that Coalition knows how to go back to the centre, is to use far-left cancel culture tactics that were popular on social media in the late 2010s.

However, it seems that the Liberal Party’s pearl-clutchers aren’t the only fanatics that have been offended by Albanese’s choice in band t-shirts.

With AusMusic T-Shirt Day just a month away, the Prime Minister has been rotating his favourite merch in public appearances in the lead up to November 27 music industry fundraiser.

His decision to wear a shirt that references ‘The Cure’ has reportedly infuriated the long-standing anti-vaxxer community in the New South Wales  Northern Rivers.

“This is not a slip of judgment, and he cannot claim ignorance” said Mullumbimby-based medical skeptic, Delilah Clemente.

“The Prime Minister is proudly wearing a T-shirt with the name of a band whose origins are steeped in medical fascism and big pharma propaganda”

“The is a profound failure of leadership. The Prime Minister chose to parade an image derived from hatred and suffering”