The brouhaha about Anthony Albanese’s Joy Division T-shirt might just be the silliest moment in Australian politics since Tony Abbott brought back knights and dames in 2014.

For years, Sussan Ley has leaned into her days as a punk. It’s part of her rich backstory , which also includes stints as a farmer, a pilot, a shearer’s cook and an Australian tax office official before she entered politics.

Whatever happened to that worldly, punky version of Ley?

It wasn’t on show when Ley criticised Albanese’s decision to wear a shirt featuring the post-punk, late 70s band Joy Division when he disembarked the prime ministerial plane after a successful meeting with Donald Trump last week.

She claimed the shirt had antisemitic connotations because the band took the name Joy Division from a term f

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