Making stuff up

From African gang violence to persecuted white South African farmers, Peter Dutton has history when it comes to race-baiting and the craziest of claims. And ones, I suspect, that are baseless.

Victorians are “scared to go out to restaurants” because of “African gang violence”, Peter Dutton has said, in an interview attacking the supposed lack of deterrence of crime in Victoria.

… he told 2GB (who else?) in January 2018. Also in 2018:

Peter Dutton has reportedly called on his department to “consider and accept” persecuted white South African farmers – despite the fact Australia has only take in a fraction of South African applicants over the past decade.

Peter Dutton – to my knowledge – had not one ounce of evidence to support his claims. Neither was he challenged by reporters to produce any evidence, or simpler still, asked where he at least obtained his bag of alleged facts.

His latest ‘fact frenzy’ is a Peter Dutton special, taking aim at First Nations people.

Peter Dutton says remote Indigenous communities in Western Australia had been badly hurt by Labor’s decision to abolish the cashless debit card, a welfare quarantine measure designed to limit the purchase of alcohol and other products.

“By abolishing the cashless debit card, the rivers of grog have just reopened,” Mr Dutton said while visiting the state on Monday. “They’ve started to flow, and we’re seeing a step-up in violence again.”