Immigration minister Peter Dutton has landed himself in a cauldron of hot water after he accidentally sent a text to the wrong person.
Peter Dutton SMS's Briggs calling @samanthamaiden 'mad f..king witch', sends it to Sam, not Briggs @dailytelegraph
Dutton had tried to send a text to another politician referring to News Corp journalist Samantha Maiden as "a mad fucking witch". Only thing is, he sent it to her by mistake.
1. For once, Australia agreed on something. It was an epic fuck up. And it was fucking hilarious.
Peter Dutton IRL.
2. We started imagining how Dutton must have felt when he realised that he'd texted Samantha Maiden instead of Jamie Briggs.
Dutton after sending that text:
3. And then we started thinking about how he might try to fix it.
Dutton: uh George Brandis: yes Peter Dutton: is there a way to get a text unsent? Brandis: no, Peter Dutton: but ASIO? Brandis: no D: shit
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"Hello is that Telstra? This is Peter Dutton. How do you stop a text?" #auspol
5. Was there any way he could salvage this?
6. Was this faux pas something that Dutton had committed before?
7. There was even commentary from some American guy on Twitter, who responded after copping abuse meant for the Aussie politician, comparing him to Donald Trump.
8. We wondered how the prime minister must be feeling.
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10. And whether this was going to work its way into official immigration policy.
@samanthamaiden
11. The only thing left to do was to try and make amends.
All good. Dutton just texted me his resignation by accident.
12. With that, we wiped the tears from our eyes and tried to get on with our lives. What a mad fucking way to bring in the new year.
I have been losing it for 25 minutes now thank you Peter Dutton