This is where the Tanya Pilbersek stuff comes from. Repeated here as if it is fact, when it is not.
The Australian (known for a certain bias)
ALP opens national issues split
17 October
TANYA Plibersek is using fear of Ebola coming to Australia, compassion about thousands of deaths in west Africa and growing global alarm to differentiate Bill Shorten’s Labor from Tony Abbott on national security.
Concern about Ebola, issues such as border checks or quarantine, whether to try to stop the virus in Africa and whether Australia is capable of dealing with the disease are all grounds to make new arguments and mark out new political territory.
THE EBOLA CRISIS
With a blurring of the lines between the involvement in Iraq against Islamic State terrorists and the development of a moral equivalence between the two threats, Labor’s deputy leader is appealing to growing domestic fears. Plibersek is also appeasing large parts of the party, MPs and members, who feel that since the Islamic State threat emerged the Opposition Leader, and his left-wing deputy, have been too close to the Prime Minister on military action in Iraq.
