“I Knew I Should Have Worn My Other Band Shirt” Mutters Albo After Reading The News

EFFIE BATEMAN | Lifestyle | Contact

Prime minister Anthony Albanese is now sorely regretting popping on one of his old band to shirts when he disembarked at Sydney airport last week, admitting that he had a much more appropriate one in the back of his wardrobe he could have brought instead.

Reading the news this morning, Albanese was shocked and appalled to discover he was anti semitic, after opposition leader Sussan Ley called him out for wearing a Joy Division shirt.

Joy Division is an english rock band famous for songs ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart (not to be confused by the number one Australian song of all time ‘Never Tear Us Apart’ by INXS) and Disorder, a song believed to be about the lead singer, Ian Curtis’s, struggles with depression.

But what many people might not know, is that the name ‘Joy Division’ references the 1953 novel called House of Dolls, which described the “joy divisions” or sexual slavery wings of Nazi concentration camps. Prior to this, they were named ‘Stiff Kittens’ and ‘Warsaw.’

Ley said, “At a time when Jewish Australians are facing a rise in antisemitism, when families are asking for reassurance and unity, the prime minister chose to parade an image derived from hatred and suffering.”

Albanese now admits he wishes he went with his original option, was to wear a t- shirt from his second favourite band – Texan rockers, ‘The Butthole Surfers.’

He had also contemplated wearing a ‘Machine Gun Fellatio’ but was worried it would look too much like Machine Gun Kelly, who is, quote, ‘a lame-o.’