hambeet posted:

PM flags extension of anti-discrimination laws to cover religious beliefs



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Anidav posted:

What's with the women of the LNP why are they so spineless as to let ScoMo deny it all and not name names. Surely it would be better to give scomo a trigger to purge the Duttonistas rather than hiding it.

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Women within the Liberal Party are backing away from previous threats and comments they have made about party bullies.

Liberal senator Linda Reynolds, who called out bullying and intimidating behaviour in the Senate last month, now says that is not the appropriate forum to air the issue.

"If we are truly going to deal with the issues faced by many women in the workplace, cheapening it through theatrical politics here in Question Time, it doesn't assist the women in my party, it doesn't assist the women in this chamber and it certainly does not assist the women in any workplace in this country," Senator Reynolds said.

The ABC understands Senator Reynolds, who is now the Assistant Minister for Home Affairs, was one of the women who was put under pressure during the leadership challenge.

But she told the Senate today was the last time she planned to discuss the bullying claims publicly.

"It is not because I'm giving up the fight," she said.

"It's because I believe the appropriate way to do that, to get meaningful change, is within my party."

She's not the only female politician softening their stance.

Last week, Liberal senator Lucy Gichuhi threatened to name and shame the bullies. But she has now shelved that threat.

After a conversation with the Prime Minister, Senator Gichuhi has decided to give Scott Morrison a chance to assert authority and discipline within the party.

And last night, Mr Morrison told the ABC's 7.30 program Senator Gichuhi had told him she was not targeted by politicians during the leadership spill.

"When I spoke to Senator Gichuhi, she made it very clear to me that in terms of the events here in Canberra and the spill of the leadership, she told me very plainly that she was not bullied by anybody here in Canberra in relation to that matter," he said.

Labor has been upping the pressure on the Government over the bullying claims.

In Senate Question Time today, the Opposition grilled Finance Minister Mathias Cormann about what had prompted Senator Gichuhi to change her tune, and questioned whether she had been given a pre-selection guarantee in exchange for her silence.

After Question Time, Senator Reynolds said Labor was making "cheap political capital" out of an important issue.

"For those opposite, I would ask and I would plead, if you want to see a better future for women within this chamber, stop politicising it and making it even harder for us on this side to deal with it," she said.

Senor Tron posted:

It's great that ScoMo is going to make it illegal for religious groups and schools to have religious tests for employees.

I mean that will of course happen right, it's not like the religious freedom line would actually be about giving religious groups extra rights beyond everyone else.

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Wentworth poll puts Labor ahead in October 20 byelection


A second internal opinion poll in the federal seat of Wentworth has put the Liberal Party in a losing position, illustrating the threat from the Sydney byelection to the Coalition's one-seat parliamentary majority.

A poll of 400 voters conducted for would-be Liberal candidate Peter King put the party's support at 36 per cent, Labor at 29 per cent, Greens at 16 per cent and an unidentified independent at 18 per cent.

After allocating preferences, the poll put Liberal support at 47 per cent and Labor support at 53 per cent, a remarkable situation for what was estimated to be the Coalition's eighth-safest seat based on the last election and recent boundary changes.

An earlier poll reportedly conducted for another Liberal candidate, who has since dropped out, put the party's primary vote around 39 per cent for the byelection, which will be held on October 20.

The two polls appear to support speculation the Morrison government is in danger of losing its parliamentary majority.

Sharma loses support
Separately, the leading male candidate, former ambassador to Israel Dave Sharma, seems to have lost the support of Matt Kean, a NSW minister and moderate-faction leader.

Two leaders of Mr Bragg's left faction, which party members say is dominant in the seat, said it was leaning towards or had decided to support a female candidate.

The left's candidate will be Katherine O'Regan, a long-time political adviser and party activist in Sydney's eastern suburbs, one said.

The twist on Mr King's poll is that it suggests the Liberal party can win a seat without a female candidate - contradicting the earlier poll that allegedly said running a woman would increase the Liberal Party's chances of winning.

The Sexton Marketing Group, which conducted the poll for Mr King, said it showed Labor voters were more sensitive to a candidate's gender than Liberal voters.

"There is no actual difference with gender in terms of the Liberal Party," it said. "This, however, is not the case for Labor voters with a 10 per cent drop in the vote among women when are face with a male candidate.

"With Peter King as the Liberal candidate, Labor primary vote drops 4 per cent, and the preference flows come back to the Liberal Party from independents and other minor parties to put the Liberal Party in a winnable position."

Shorten is unpopular
The Labor Party's candidate, Tim Murray, is male. Labor's leader, Bill Shorten, has a negative 46 per cent rating in the seat, indicating he is very unpopular, according to the poll.

Mr King held Wentworth for the Liberal Party from 2000 to 2004, when he was removed by Malcolm Turnbull, whose resignation has triggered the byelection. He then ran as an independent.

One of the leading Liberal candidates, Andrew Bragg, dropped out this week because, he said, the Liberal Party should select a woman following allegations of bullying during the leadership change three weeks ago.

Mr Sharma has said he does not intend to pull out. The vote is scheduled for Thursday evening.

"The main thing party polling shows is that having a local candidate is not as important as having someone who can be a cabinet minister," said one person involved in the process. "The female stuff is a smokescreen."

'Choose the right person'
Ms O'Regan is executive director of the Cities Leadership Institute, a small not-for-profit organisation that conducts executive training and public forums to make "to make cities, towns and communities great places," according to her LinkedIn profile.

She is also stated as chair of the Sydney East Business Chamber and a director of the Sydney Institute, a political forum run by Gerard and Anne Henderson.

One candidate urged his fellow Liberals to make their selection based on merit.

"If you believe that a woman is the best candidate to campaign and win this seat, I urge you to vote for her," digital campaign expert Carrington Bringham said in an email.

"But don't vote for her because she's a woman: vote for her because she's the right person."

Birdstrike posted:

shut up. shut up


we all know it should be tithin singing slutty gay beet

froglet posted:

Eh, I get that theyre often up to their eyeballs in debt but most of them have a couple of hundred grand if you liquidated everything. Which isn't nothing, way more than the average Australian household has at any rate.

"abs 2012 posted:

The average equivalised net worth (taking into account both assets and liabilities) of farming households in 2009-10 was $1.3 million, much higher than the average across other households ($393,000).

Anidav posted:

What's with the women of the LNP why are they so spineless as to let ScoMo deny it all and not name names. Surely it would be better to give scomo a trigger to purge the Duttonistas rather than hiding it.

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

https://twitter.com/SkyNewsAust/status/1039753895814340611 lol

The Peccadillo posted:

NTRabbit posted:

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

Do you reckon we could get one more spill before the next election?

snoremac posted:

There’s nothing left in the cup but backwash. What I’m saying is, Australia Needs Tony.

The Peccadillo posted:

From Who?

Jonah Galtberg posted:

the major blood vessels of capitalists

NTRabbit posted:

Zetsubou-san posted:

rich bastard. i had to settle for the shareware copy of scorched earth

Starshark posted:

Bit of a long-shot question here, but I'm getting a little desperate. Can anyone link to a poll by a news agency that's online that uses a leading question? Or even just one of those lovely news.com polls they do that are pointless because of self-selection bias? Finding news.com hard to navigate which doesn't bode well for my digital communication course.

monkeu posted:

https://twitter.com/bevanshields/status/1039867063471235074?s=21

https://twitter.com/turnbullmalcolm/status/1039877963678928896?s=21