Nationals MP Andrew Broad has announced he will not contest the next federal election, but will remain on the backbench as the member for Mallee. His political career has come to an end after it was alleged that he’d had dinner with a young woman in Hong Kong who he had connected with through a […]
Nationals leader and deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack has clarified that he was aware of besieged MP Andrew Broad’s issues relating to online dating weeks earlier than he initially indicated. Yesterday the National’s leader said he’d been aware of Andrew Broad’s trip to Hong Kong where he met up with a woman he’d been chatting […]
Questions are being asked about why Nationals leader Michael McCormack didn’t take action over the behaviour of MP Andrew Broad until allegations of inappropriate behaviour were published in the media. Earlier today New Idea magazine published an explosive story that suggested that Nationals MP Andrew Broad had used a ‘Sugar Daddy’ dating website to meet young women. […]
Nationals MP Andrew Broad has left the government frontbench following allegations that he used a ‘sugar baby’ website to meeting young women while travelling overseas for work. The allegations were published by New Idea who quote a woman named Amy who claimed to have shared a meal with the now-former assistant minister in Hong Kong. Broad […]
Senator Dean Smith’s Marriage Bill has passed through the lower house of parliament, bringing marriage equality into Australian law. Following the ‘Yes’ result of the Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey the co-sponsored bill has been hotly debated for the last two weeks, but remains unchanged by amendments from conservatives and The Greens. Amendments put forward […]
Two National party MPs have accused Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull of being a weak leader. Victorian MP Andrew Broad said the Prime Minister had shown “a clear failure of leadership” by ignoring the concerns of conservative MPs as the marriage bill was debated in the senate. Broad told the ABC’s AM program that he believed […]
National MP Andrew Broad has told reaffirmed to media today he will quit the government and sit on the crossbench if the Coalition allows a free vote on marriage equality in parliament. Speaking to Sunraysia Daily, the member for Mallee said he would stand by his previous promise to quit the National Party, telling the publication; […]
A new poll published by Fairfax Media has revealed the voters in key coalition seats would rather see politicians directly deal with the issue of marriage equality than via the government’s stalled plan for a plebiscite. The Sydney Morning Herald has revealed that when it comes to the public, the numbers are on the side of the […]
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has called the Liberal Party back from parliamentary break a day earlier than expected to debate marriage equality before all MPs return to Canberra. Headlines have been dominated by the issue in the last week, as government MPs declare they will cross the floor if given the opportunity to vote in […]
Scott Ryan, the Special Minister of State charged with delivering the government’s marriage plebiscite, has dismissed calls for a free vote on the issue. Despite the legislation for a plebiscite facing a certain death once it reaches the senate, many of the Turnbull government’s MP’s are adamant that there is no way the issue will […]
