New tone for Liberal Coalition encounters same old problems

However, in the debate of migration of this week, the tenor of the coalition’s contributions were familiar.

Ley, after the weekend rallies while doing media tours, migration “put pressure on every corner of this country … Infrastructure, housing and life to our way,” he said.

The nine, “Every day around the infrastructure of the houses that can not find the houses, three times longer I talk to the Australians. And they want to know that we have a balanced migration program,” he said. Today Wednesday.

Since the election, several liberal deputies said that Dutton’s immigrants have not descended for Australia’s accusation for housing problems. They thought that many voters see this at best, at worst, racist.

The liberal senator Andrew Bragg touched on a public point. “Someone said to me, ‘If you are an immigrant, you were accused of the housing crisis’ … And it was not a very good starting point for our campaign,” he said. GuardianPodcast.

Ley suffered to emphasize this week: “This is never about immigrants because I love our Australian immigrants and I am myself.”

But it wasn’t a smooth sale. “[If] It was never related to immigrants, then why did you raise them? “A interviewer asked. Or are you giving them [protesters] More fuel? “he asked.

The opposition leader said he wanted a logical debate. Like Ley’s new immigration spokesman Paul Scarr, who was appointed to the position because of Ley’s advocacy for multicultural communities.

“I do not support the blame of immigrants or immigrants for the problems we encounter today.

“With regard to the problem, I support to have a debate … If there is no discussion, the extreme elements will fill or try to fill the gap, and this is something we need to resist.”

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A logical discussion is a reasonable demand. But there are thoughts: one when you do it, the other is how.

Worker Senator Michelle Ananda-Rajah launched an investigation to migrate to calls from a nation and the coalition. “Of course, we should be able to make a rational discussion about migration,” he said.

“But when this argument is selected by the Neo-Nazis, the rationality goes out of the window… This is the dog whistle into a megaphone.”

This brings us to Ley’s team. When a nation sought an investigation into migration behind the weekend rallies, five coalition senators voted for the right -wing small party, including pre -banker Bridget McKenzie. As a spokesman for immigration, four senators, including Scarr, opposed it. Most others avoided voting. It was a sign of the old sections.

Finally, Ley’s call for a rational debate was sabotaged by his side.

When Ley was leading, Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, whose ambitions go to the south, appeared in ABCs Briefing in the afternoon. Migration, housing and infrastructure began with the points of speech.

Then the price devoted to other regions.

Shadow Minister said that the federal government brought immigrants from “other countries önemli to vote and called the“ Indian community ”as an example. It was an extraordinary and wrong claim. He also united an attack on the Indian Australians targeted by weekend rallies.

One hour after the interview, Price made an explanatory statement. “Australia maintains a long -standing and non -discriminatory migration policy. Otherwise, suggestions are a mistake,” he said.

Ley and his office provided Price’s quick statement. This was the new leader in the show.

Nevertheless, Price refused to apologize and the spreader deepened. Coalition resources reported anger and anger in the party room. Ley began to praise the contributions of Australia’s “amazing” Indian community. Dave Sharma, the Liberal Senator, an Indian heritage, helped improve the chaos. But the return came too late.

The last thing Ley’s re -branding was the repetition of the “Chinese spies” epic in the last election that isolated the Chinese Australian community. Ley cannot meet the symptoms of the party room section.

This week, the team seemed to be elected by Dutton, and seemed to be singing from the divine page.

In terms of Ley’s commitments, he was one of three.

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