Update:
Invoking the name of one of history's most appalling individuals, the Nazi propagandist and genocidal maniac Joseph Goebbels, would be a grievous error in any argument, but for a prime minister to gratuitously pull it out of nowhere to describe the Opposition Leader in Parliament was everything Abbott's critics complain about.
Aggressive, offensive, and worst of all, very poorly judged.
In the ensuing fracas, two of Labor's Jewish MPs, frontbencher Mark Dreyfus and its respected elder Michael Danby, exited the chamber. The first, tossed out by the Speaker for being outraged, and the second walking out in disgust. The optics of that were doubly poor.
The expression on Liberal faces, once it had dawned on them what had just happened, was not so much anger as something worse. Disappointment. Probably with themselves.more
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