
1. Waleed Aly launches blistering takedown of Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s claims.
The Project host Waleed Aly has accused Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and senior coalition MPs of dishonesty over their claims about African gang violence in Victoria.
In a blistering takedown on Thursday night’s episode, the academic and television host took aim at comments made by Prime Minister on radio station 3AW this week.
“There is real concern about Sudanese gangs,” the Prime Minister said on air on Tuesday. “You’d have to be walking around with your hands over your ears not hear it.”
Aly, a Melbourne resident, noted that the only place he’d heard such concerns was precisely where the Prime Minister had made his comments: on talk-back radio.
It’s time for our politicians to be honest about ‘African gangs’. #TheProjectTV | Written by Waleed Aly and Tom Whitty (@twhittyer) pic.twitter.com/5GFGKkyGUh
— The Project (@theprojecttv) July 19, 2018