Jewish groups have condemned barrister Julian Burnside for sharing a picture on Twitter depicting Peter Dutton as a Nazi.
Mr Burnside retweeted an image showing the Home Affairs Minister’s face superimposed on a Nazi officer in a uniform that included the “death’s head” emblem used by the SS unit responsible for concentration camps.
Mr Burnside has represented Alan Bond and Rose Porteous in court but more recently has advocated for the rights of asylum-seekers on Manus Island and Nauru.
He is a fierce critic of Mr Dutton and the federal government and added to the retweet of the Nazi photo that Mr Dutton was “the most powerful MP in Australia, and arguably the least scrupulous”. “He acts as if the rights of human beings are irrelevant, unless they happen to be in his electorate,” he wrote on Saturday.
Read the article by Richard Ferguson in The Australian.