Yassmin verdict left to Bishop
MALCOLM Turnbull has called Yassmin Abdel-Magied’s Anzac Day comments a “silly” mistake, but says he won’t be ruling on whether she should still have a role in government. The Prime Minister has left the call on whether the ABC presenter remains on the Council for Australian-Arab Relations entirely up to Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop. “I’ll say this about Yassmin Abdel-Magied, she made a very inappropriate tweet,” the PM told 3AW host Neil Mitchell yesterday. On Anzac Day, Ms Abdel-Magied posted on Facebook: “LEST. WE. FORGET. (Manus, Nauru, Syria, Palestine ...”.