As someone who spent a good deal of their teen years lying in the dark listening to Unknown Pleasures on high rotation (yes, my parents were worried), I could only shake my head at Opposition Leader Sussan Ley’s criticism of the prime minister’s decision to emerge from a plane wearing a Joy Division T-shirt.

In the House of Representatives on Tuesday, Ley condemned the T-shirt Albanese was photographed wearing last Thursday – the cover of the acclaimed band’s first album, released in 1979 – as he landed from his trip to the United States to meet president Donald Trump.

What did Ley say?

She claimed Albanese was “displaying the wrong values” by choosing to wear a T-shirt celebrating a band whose origins were “steeped in antisemitism”, and whose name was “taken from the wing of a Nazi

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