Peter Dutton: minister for contradicting himself

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The odious Peter Dutton, minister for torturing refugees, has plumbed new depths in responding to a Greens proposal to increase Australia's refugee intake from 13,750 to 50,000.

"They won't be numerate or literate in their own language, let alone English," Dutton said. "These people would be taking Australian jobs, there's no question about that.

"For many of them that would be unemployed, they would languish in unemployment queues and on Medicare and the rest of it so there would be huge cost and there's no sense in sugar-coating that, that's the scenario."

Dutton has identified the previously unknown Schrodinger's refugee, who can simultaneously take all those Aussie jobs that do not require literacy or numeracy and bludge on the dole.

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