Mark Dreyfus has taken the rare step of responding to a Peter Dutton press conference; Dutton had claimed Dreyfus had apologised to the prime minister for accusing the opposition of politicising anti-Semitism in question time yesterday, once he sat back down on the frontbench. Dreyfus says:

Peter Dutton’s claims are a complete fabrication.

I never thought I’d see the day when a Liberal leader would try to silence a Jew for speaking about antisemitism in the Australian Parliament.

I stand by everything I said yesterday.

We need to put an end to the wave of antisemitism in this country which is exactly what the Government I am a part of has worked tirelessly to do. The only way that will happen is if there is unity and bipartisanship.