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Michael Dwyer Journalist October 30, 2025 — 5.00am

It was only a matter of time before the woke brigade came to cancel our band merch. According to Liberal leader Sussan Ley, “at a time when Jewish Australians are facing a rise in antisemitism”, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s Joy Division T-shirt went down at Sydney Airport this week like a lead zeppelin.

Sorry, too soon? The Hindenburg disaster, as depicted on a billion Led Zep tees, was no joke. As Ley indignantly implied during question time on Tuesday , neither is a band name “taken from a wing of a Nazi concentration camp where Jewish women were forced into sexual slavery”.

That’s kind of the point. Rock is like that: provocative, ironic, often purposefully dark. Joy Division, a l

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