Do you have the slightest inkling of human compassion? Can you recognise that making a shit ‘joke’ ’bout climate change under a live mic is a bad idea? More pressingly, are you capable of calling someone a “fucking witch” in a text message without sending them the message itself?
Congratulations, friend – you’re already more qualified than Peter Dutton to be Australia’s Minister for Immigration and Border Protection!
The front page of tomorrow’s Daily Telegraph is promising to be an absolute bloody doozy after word broke that Dutton’s stubby ‘lil fingers sent a message about the Tele’s own writer Samantha Maiden to her instead of ol’ mate Jamie Briggs.
Peter Dutton SMS’s Briggs calling @samanthamaiden ‘mad f..king witch’, sends it to Sam, not Briggs @dailytelegraph pic.twitter.com/g89hCBvU7d
— Stacy Farrar (@FarrarStacy) January 3, 2016
As we’ve already established, this isn’t the first mind-bendingly dumb thing he’s done, and it won’t be the last. At least this is a bit different from his reign over Australia’s oppressive asylum seeker policies inasmuch as the initial subject of his ire gets the last laugh:
respect to @samanthamaiden pic.twitter.com/AVX3BHaMN6
— Angus Livingston (@anguslivingston) January 3, 2016
Good God, though. Someone thought it was a good idea to give this guy actual responsibilities. Oh #Auspol, you never cease to amaze and terrify us.
Story: Daily Telegraph / Twitter.
Photo: Stefan Postles / Getty.
