Oh, of course he copped a bollocking for that confused and antiquated take, but it seems the best was saved for tonight’s Q&A.
In one of the snarkiest questions ever unleashed on the show, the actual Minister for Industry Christopher Pyne was asked by audience member Joseph Faggion if “the Liberal Party is super embarrassed whenever that guy [Dutton] talks?”
The response was, to be fair, decent. For a while. Pyne deflected the job-stealing mumbo jumbo, focussing instead on the original Greens proposal to bring in more refugees and its massive hypothetical cost.
Tony Jones sees deflection, though. And Tony Jones don’t care. He asked “so, is it a problem as Mr Dutton seems to be suggesting, that they’ll take Australian jobs?”
Pyne returned to the media’s apparent spin of the issue, before Jones came back with gusto:
“I’m talking about what he actually said…I mean, I thought if they’d become Australians as refugees, they’d be in their rights to have Australian jobs. In fact, you’d want them to have Australian jobs.”
And, yep, it was thanks to Dutton’s original WTF assertions that refugees will somehow clog our welfare system while stealing our jobs.
So, in answer to the original question: yes. Yes, Peter Dutton embarrassed Pyne, just by opening his mouth.
Watch:
Is the Liberal party generally super embarassed whenever Dutton opens his mouth? @cpyne says no #QandA https://t.co/VNgFoi2VOr
— ABC Q&A (@QandA) May 23, 2016
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