Carr is shocked that anyone (other than Keating) calls out a recalcitrant anti-Semite
No to anti-Semitism. Primrose Riordan, The Australian, November 16:
Josh Frydenberg has attacked Mahathir Mohamad for making anti-Semitic remarks …
Treasurers don’t attack Mahathir. Former foreign minister Bob Carr tweets, November 16:
Can’t believe @Josh Frydenberg has taken it on himself to attack Malaysian PM. Federal Treasurers don’t assail leaders of friendly countries. What got into him? …
Treasurers don’t attack the Malaysian Prime Minister? Philip Shenon, The New York Times, December 9, 1993:
The brickbats are flying once again … The feud is between Prime Minister Mahathir … and (former treasurer and now) Prime Minister Paul Keating … (who) referred to … Mahathir as a “recalcitrant” (and said he) “couldn’t care less” about (Mahathir’s absence from an APEC) summit … Mahathir … threatened … a “Buy Australian Last” campaign … Keating refused (to apologise) … and a letter he sent … seems only to have made things worse.
Treasurer attacks first-class pyjama flyer. ABC News, November 16:
Journalist: Bob Carr has … criticised the government’s position on Malaysia. Do you have a response?
Frydenberg: Bob Carr is the least well-regarded foreign minister in Australia’s history … (He) is better known for his steel-cut oats and his first-class pyjamas and flying around the world, picking up anecdotes for his own memoirs than for anything he did as foreign minister … Does (Bob Carr) agree with Dr Mahathir that less than six million Jews were killed in the Holocaust? Does he agree with Dr Mahathir that Jews are hook-nosed people? Does he agree with Dr Mahathir that Schindler’s List shouldn’t have been shown in Malaysia?
Predictably, lining up with the anti-Semites? Mike Carlton tweets, November 15:
Predictably, Frydenberg running the case for the Jewish lobby. Disgraceful.
They may attack us over Jerusalem. David Crowe, The Sydney Morning Herald, November 15:
Prime Minister Scott Morrison is being urged to rethink his policy shift on Israel in an extraordinary warning from Indonesia that “radicals” could target Australians in terror attacks in response to his new stance.
They’re already attacking us. Liam Mannix, Melbourne’s The Age, November 15:
(The Hume Islamic Youth Centre which) … is linked to the Bourke Street attacker and Christmas Day terror plot is seeking council approval to accommodate up to 500 people at once as its community grows.
Hellhole. Bianca Hall, The Sydney Morning Herald, November 6, 2012:
On Nauru … hunger strikers (are) protesting … “hellhole” conditions …
Hellhole, no, but better welfare in Australia. AAP, November 16:
(Forty) … refugees who left Nauru to resettle in the US want to come back to (Nauru) … Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton … (said:) “People … (are) saying to people on Nauru … to go to … Australia because they have a better welfare system.”
Better welfare? Not enough. Luke Henriques-Gomes, Guardian Australia, November 16:
Bob … Katter said (Newstart) was insufficient for those in regional Queensland … Increasing the dole “would go a long way to enabling First Australians to buy fresh fruit and vegetables”.
Enough for a savvy saver? Alice Murphy, Daily Mail Australia, November 16:
Gold Coast-based … (savvy-saver Kimberly Dobson said) “I’ve gotten my groceries down to $40 a week, out of which I buy all organic meat, milk and eggs.”