{"id":109922,"date":"2024-08-18T15:23:34","date_gmt":"2024-08-18T05:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=109922"},"modified":"2024-08-18T15:23:37","modified_gmt":"2024-08-18T05:23:37","slug":"dutton-reportedly-seeks-legal-advice-after-steggalls-racist-dig-over-gaza-visa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=109922","title":{"rendered":"Dutton reportedly seeks legal advice after Steggall\u2019s \u2018racist\u2019 dig over Gaza visa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Peter Dutton is seeking legal advice after being called \u201cracist\u201d during a heated House debate on visas for Palestinians fleeing Gaza, Sky News reported on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The opposition leader earlier this week moved a motion to suspend standing orders and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=108122\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Coalition pushing for pause on allowing Palestinian\u2019s from Gaza into Australia\">debate Gaza visas, giving him the floor to accuse the government of dropping the ball on national security<\/a> and make the case for a blanket ban on people fleeing the war-torn Palestinian territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But things boiled over when independent MP Zali Steggall told the House about a Palestinian refugee in her electorate who came \u201cto Australia under a visa approved by the Morrison government under the same systems.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr Dutton interjected several times, prompting Ms Steggall to snap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe heard you in silence,\u201d she told the Liberal leader, after multiple interjections from Mr Dutton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou can hear me in silence. Stop being racist!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ms Steggall withdrew her comment, which was protected under parliamentary privilege, but repeated the claim several times outside the House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=109308\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Opposition leader Peter Dutton says I am not a racist and a punching bag!\">Peter Dutton has since proclaimed he is not a racist<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Dutton is seeking legal advice after being called \u2018racist\u2019 by another MP for his call to ban visas for those fleeing Gaza.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":109309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[273,999,35],"tags":[9721,10648,12657],"class_list":["post-109922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-australia-politics","category-breaking-news","tag-immigration-policy","tag-peter-dutton","tag-zali-steggal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109923,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109922\/revisions\/109923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/109309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}