Poor Timing For Parties

Dutton gets that the issue is about a safe society

Peter Dutton’s opinion article describes to me in detail, why it so important that he becomes Australia’s next prime minister (“Labor has a disregard for Australians’ safety”, Sunday Telegraph, 18/8).

There is nothing racist in promising to protect your country against importing extremism, when other countries have done just that, yet that is what has been suggested by Mr Dutton’s political opponents.

It’s a no-brainer to place a temporary ban on immigrants coming from the Hamas terrorist-controlled Gaza but the Labor government is waving through Gazans on tourist visas within 24 hours of application, with little vetting or ASIO checks.

Just like he did with the Voice referendum, Mr Albanese just can’t read the room, with the majority of Australians wanting to feel safe in their homes and free from the hate and radicalisation we are seeing overseas.

Janice Russell, Malua Bay

Peter Dutton (Opinion, Sunday Telegraph, 18/8), Piers Ackerman (Opinion, Sunday Telegraph, 18/8), and Andrew Bolt (Opinion, DT, 19/8) all tell it like it is.

The facts are that the UK and USA are taking the bare minimum of refugees from Gaza.

Neighbouring Muslim countries like Jordan and Egypt are not taking any Gazans at all, and have been pushing back against Hamas for years.

They do not want their countries to be infected with Hamas ideology.

And yet, Albanese and Labor are bringing in people without rigorous security checks because, I believe, they are chasing the Muslim vote for the next election.

They are importing an electoral base and in doing so are putting all Australians at risk.

Peter Dutton has Australians’ safety in mind when he calls for the influx to stop. This is not racism, this is plain common sense.

1. Shepherd, Balgowlah

More proof why Hamas must be eliminated

So, Hamas contemplated digging up the corpses of Australian and other war dead to use as bargaining chips (“Hamas threat to use our dead as hostage”, Sunday Telegraph, 18/8). This must show how low this terrorist organisation will stoop and why it must be eradicated.

This is the same sort of unacceptable despotic regime those long dead young men gave their lives to free the world from.

I think the vast majority of those Diggers, if you could ask them, would say: “If they dig me up, give them nothing, we can’t let terrorists win”.

Bruce Collison, Banks, ACT