Opposition Leader Sussan Ley has made an extraordinary speech calling for an apology from the prime minister for wearing a popular rock band's T-shirt when he touched down in Australia after last week's visit to the United States.

Albanese was snapped disembarking from his Air Force charter jet on Thursday wearing a tee of Unknown Pleasures , the 1979 debut album of British post-punk band Joy Division.

In parliament today, Ley – who has previously spoken about her own "punk phase" she went through – gave a speech calling for Albanese to apologise for his choice of shirt, saying it was a "profound failure of judgment".

"The prime minister stepped off the plane proudly wearing a T-shirt with the name of a band, Joy Division, whose origins are steeped in antisemitism," the opposition

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