Ley said Australians “expect their prime minister to show judgment, respect and leadership” but have “got the opposite” from Albanese.

“Arriving back in Australia from his overseas trip, the prime minister stepped off the plane proudly wearing a T-shirt with the name of a band, Joy Division, whose origins are steeped in antisemitism,” Ley told the Australian Parliament.

“The name was taken from the wing of a Nazi concentration camp where Jewish women were forced into sexual slavery,” she continued.

The Liberal leader went on to note that Albanese was aware of the origin of the band’s name, which was described by Holocaust survivor Ka-Tsetnik, or Yehiel De-Nur, in the 1955 novel The House of Dolls.

Ley pointed to an April 2022 podcast in which host Nigel Marsh pointed out the history of the name to Albanese, then the opposition leader on the campaign trail, who responded: “Oh my god … I wish I didn’t [know]. It’s very dark, but everything about the band is very dark.”