Opposition leader Sussan Ley has criticised Anthony Albanese for wearing the T-shirt of celebrated post-punk band Joy Division. Referencing a T-shirt Albanese wore five days ago when departing his plane on arrival in Sydney, Ley claimed it was a ‘profound failure of judgment’. She pointed out that Joy Division – the acclaimed and influential British band behind Love Will Tear Us Apart – had been named after ‘a wing of a Nazi concentration camp where Jewish women were forced into sexual slavery’. The origin of Joy Division’s name is well known. The band dissolved after the death of its frontman, Ian Curtis, and its remaining members formed New Order.
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Sussan Ley launches attack on PM over Joy Division T-shirt
