In late February, at a luncheon to welcome Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull made a forgettable speech.
Lacquered with treacle, full of false claims, peppered with indifference to any concern about justice, Turnbull spoke as though he’d been briefed by Netanyahu’s Cabinet.
As long as readers don’t easily become nauseous, this speech is worth reading as a document which represents hypocrisy, develops fake news and endorses the idea that political gain can be made through deceit.
Read the article by Stuart Rees in Online Opinion.