Commentary
So Peter Dutton inaugurates his new career as Australian opposition leader with a couple of apologies. First, it’s not a great start.
One thing I learned as a teacher is that apologies are rarely spontaneous (“I’m sorry I got caught” is what they really mean), and something I’ve discovered in recent years, as the Woke cultural epidemic spreads, is that apologies are never accepted. If you apologise, you admit some kind of fault that is never forgiven and will continue ever after to be weaponised against you.
I’m not saying that we shouldn’t feel sorry for our mistakes and duly admit them to those we may have hurt, but nowadays, we don’t expect mercy in politics. You can be certain that this same stuff will be used against Dutton at the next election—if he stays the distance….