'They are taking the piss': Yassmin unleashes on politicians

MUSLIM activist Yassmin Abdel-Magied has blasted last week’s Liberal leadership spill, accusing politicians of “taking the piss” by deposing yet another prime minister.

During an appearance on Tuesday’s episode of The Project, Abdel-Magied couldn’t resist the opportunity to take a swipe at the politicians who had publicly berated her in the past.

“Lols, lols. Like honestly, they are taking the piss,” she said. “Like genuinely, it’s like the Australian politicians are playing some sort of game in their own world and not really taking seriously the fact that they are running a country, and it’s honestly offensive.

“As an Australian I’m like we deserve better. I got on the plane and someone was prime minister, I got off the plane and like three other people had maybe been prime minister, I was like, ‘can please somebody send me some updates?”’

Abdel-Magied also took a dig at the fact the majority of the leadership spill’s main players were white middle-aged men.

“I think it’s really embarrassing for them and also if anyone ever says to me that like women can’t do something or like people of colour aren’t able to do something, I’ll be like right is this the best that you white men have,” she said, drawing laughter and applause from The Project’s audience.

“Don’t come at me with chat about merit or quotas because it’s a pretty low bar.”

Abdel-Magied has returned to Australia to attend the Melbourne Writer’s Festival where she gave a speech titled ‘Eulogy for My Career’.

In an edited version of the speech published online, Abdel-Magied revealed how she found herself “grieving her past self” after losing her job in Australia.

“It was not just my career I was grieving. I was grieving my past self. It was the baby Yassmin I had lost, a resolutely positive and perhaps blindly optimistic young person, a soul unburdened by the knowledge of what the world does to people who don’t quite fit the mould and who want us all to be a little better. I had lost an innocence I didn’t even know I had,” she said.

Abdel-Magied sparked a national outrage on Anzac Day 2017 when she wrote on Facebook: “Lest We Forget (Manus, Nauru, Syria, Palestine …).”

She later deleted and apologised for the post amid a storm of outrage, with her ABC show Australia Wide axed a month later.

Then Immigration Minister Peter Dutton — one of the driving forces behind last week’s leadership coup — was one of Abdel-Magied’s highest profile detractors and labelled her show’s axing a “good start”.

After revealing she had been “traumatised” by the “deeply racist” criticism of her, Abdel-Magied moved to the UK in mid 2017.

An engineer, writer and TV presenter, Abdel-Magied has also made headlines for a heated exchange with former Tasmanian senator Jacqui Lambie on Q & A.

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