Opposition Leader Sussan Ley has attacked Anthony Albanese’s leadership over the prime minister’s decision to wear a Joy Division band T-shirt five days ago, accusing him of “displaying the wrong values”.

Ley made a speech in the House of Representatives on Tuesday afternoon to condemn the T-shirt Albanese was photographed wearing last Thursday: the cover of Unknown Pleasures , the acclaimed post-punk band’s first album released in 1979.

Anthony Albanese disembarks from the RAAF plane in the Joy Division t-shirt last Thursday. Credit: Media Mode

Joy Division’s name comes from the phrase used to describe groups of women kept as sexual slaves in concentration camps during World War II.

The band’s name has courted criticism but did not deter its commercial success in the early 1980s

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