Prime minister says deputy Liberal leader’s Australia Day speech was ‘disrespectful’ and Katy Gallagher called it ‘nuts’
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Anthony Albanese and Katy Gallagher have rebuked the deputy Liberal leader, Sussan Ley, for drawing parallels between the arrival of the first fleet to Elon Musk’s SpaceX mission to reach Mars, describing the comparison as “disrespectful” and “nuts”.
But Ley is standing by the comparison as her office accuses the prime minister of lacking the “imagination” to understand Australia’s founding story.
