Q: This is a sect which treats women as second-class citizens and doesn’t tolerate homosexuality at all. Surely you don’t think those are shared values with the government?

Dutton:

The point I make is people will support parties for different reasons and people of Islamic faith are involved in this election. People of no faith, people of the Jewish faith obviously feel particularly aggrieved, as they should, by the anti-Semitism that we’ve seen in our society over the course of the last couple of years and they’ve seen anti-Semitic Jew-hating Greens party (this is a lie and frankly grossly irresponsible. Opposing genocide and the actions of a nation state is not anti-Semitism. Israel is currently in front of the ICC on allegations of collective punishment over its denial of food, aid and medical supplies into Gaza, which has been ignored by the Coalition) and the conduct of that party, but some people will be out supporting the Greens and that’s the reality. For our party, the plan that we’ve got as we go into the election is to cut fuel by 25 cents a litre, to give $1200 back by the way of tax rebate, to help people deal with the cost-of-living pressures they’re under and to make sure that we can get our economy back on track so we can deal with the cost-of-living crisis, bring inflation down, bring interest rates down and cut Labor’s taxes.