We need to be honest in having that discussion.”In parliament on Monday Shorten asked Dutton to specify who he was talking about. Peter Dutton's 'Lebanese Muslim' comments will dismay security services, Labor says Read moreThe Labor leader is not Dutton’s only critic. He was attacked by Fraser’s immigration minister, Ian Macphee, who called his observations “outrageous” and a deliberate attempt to chase negative headlines. Macphee placed Dutton in the same category as the One Nation leader, Pauline Hanson, who opposes Muslim immigration, and Bolt, declaring them “ignorant, alarmist voices”. Asked again to specify the precise nature of the misrepresentation by Shorten, Dutton said the Labor party had “embarked on this very tricky approach”.

Source: The Guardian November 24, 2016 03:22 UTC