After Woolworths announced last week that it would no longer stock Australia Day merchandise due to declining demand, the opposition leader, Peter Dutton, condemned the move as an “outrage” born from the retailer’s “woke agenda” and said most Australians likely thought the same.

Now several conservative politicians are paying for advertisements on social media platforms lobbying against changing the date.

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[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 4 points 2 years ago

It's not like their real policy of "rich people should get richer" is going to get them a lot of votes from 90% of the population, so they need something to pretend to stand for to bring in the votes.