Powerful piece by Cory calling out the behaviour of Angus Taylor last week. Frankly, the Liberal Party doesn’t know whether it is coming or going when it comes to responding to Pauline’s comments about multiculturalism. Taylor has flip-flopped on the issue over the past week, changing his position on more than one occasion, but it’s right that Cory has held him to account for what he said.

“You would have hoped that the leader of the Liberal Party would have embraced the fact that, finally, a politician was taking on one of the left’s sacred cows. If he was a genuine conservative, he would have done so.

“Sadly, what we got from Angus Taylor was the opposite.

“It is my view that he misrepresented Pauline’s speech in an extremely disappointing way. He accused her of saying the opposite of what she said. He either hadn’t bothered to watch the speech, or he took the opportunity to smear Pauline in line with the accusations of racism peddled in the media.

“In short, he accused us at One Nation of wanting to judge people on the colour of their skin, despite Pauline’s speech making it extremely clear that she wanted the opposite.

“In addition to making it clear that her comments about multiculturalism had nothing to do with race, Pauline also pledged to abolish the National Indigenous Australians Agency, which is, in my view, largely based on racial grievance.

“Pauline stated: ‘My vision for Australia is that we’re all Australians. Remember, regardless of race, colour, creed, or where you are from, we’re all treated as Australians equally on an individual needs basis, not based on race.’

“There is something very depressing about the way in which the Liberal Party leader responded to Pauline’s speech.

“For me, it was a real mask-slip moment. Despite all the Liberal Party’s protestations that they understand how the party went wrong in the past and how it must change, his response to Pauline’s speech tells us all we need to know.” Headline: "