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Nat Barr was forced to intervene during a heated debate between a Labor MP and the deputy leader of the opposition in Sunrise ahead of the upcoming by-election in Dunkley.
Education Minister Jason Clare and Liberal MP Sussan Ley appeared on the breakfast show on Friday morning, where they discussed Saturday’s by-election for Dunkley, in Melbourne’s outer south-east.
The interview took a turn when Clare criticized Ley for a tweet she shared on Thursday.
“If you live in Frankston and have a problem with Victorian women being assaulted by foreign criminals, vote against the Labor Party,” he tweeted.
‘If you don’t want Australian women to be attacked by foreign criminals, vote against the Labor Party. Send a message to the Labor Party.
Nat Barr was forced to intervene during a heated debate between Labor MP Jason Clare and deputy opposition leader Sussan Ley in Sunrise ahead of the upcoming Dunkley by-election.
The tweet referenced a detained former immigrant and convicted sex offender who was charged with stalking and sexual assault in Richmond earlier this week.
However, Victoria Police later confirmed they had arrested the wrong man and all charges against the 44-year-old man from West Papua had been dropped.
Dunkley’s seat was held by Labor MP Peta Murphy, who died in December from breast cancer.
‘If Peta was still alive today, she would be upset with you and the tweet you posted yesterday. The police have dropped the charges and should delete that tweet,” Clare said as host Barr was visibly shocked.
‘It shows how desperate you and the Liberal Party are. I think the Dunkley people will realize that tomorrow.
The man who was wrongly accused was one of the detained immigrants released by the government following a High Court ruling last year.
“I want to make this point clear: that Jason’s Home Secretary said that every single one of those individuals who have been released, those hardened criminals, should be locked up,” Ms Ley responded.
‘Includes 37 sexual offenders. “As a woman, I’m not taking a step back from this and calling it out.”
Clare doubled down and said Ley should delete his tweet before she interrupted to say she was “not following instructions” from him.
“This is a classic example of why women don’t join the Liberal Party and why they don’t vote for the Liberal Party, because of that classic, desperate, dirty political fear campaign that we saw yesterday in the Liberal Party,” said the Mr. Clare. saying.
The opposition vice-president then said that Immigration Minister Andrew Giles was “desperate” and accused him of not knowing where the detainees were.
“I don’t know, really, you have to wake up in the morning, look in the mirror and think, after 25 years of being a member of parliament, is this what I’ve become?” “I’m forced to post tweets like this,” Mr Clare said.
Barr then intervened and changed the subject to Anthony Albanese’s birthday plans for the weekend.
Victoria Police have since clarified that a local Richmond man is their person of interest in relation to harassment and assault charges.
Dunkley’s seat was held by Labor MP Peta Murphy, who died in December from breast cancer.