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One Nation leader Pauline Hanson says parents of young children who believe their child might be transgender should have their children taken off them. Senator Hanson appeared on the online political discussion program Pellowe Talk to chat about the Queensland government’s recent passing of a bill that outlawed gay conversion therapy. Senator Hanson said she would never […]
Tags: Dave Pellowe, George Christensen, LGBTI, One Nation, Pauline Hanson, Pellowe Talk, transgender
19 Aug 2020 /
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Queensland MP George Christensen has labeled a news report published yesterday in the Herald Sun as “Highly defamatory”, describing it as part of a “putrid smear campaign” orchestrated by “gutless” political opponents. The newspaper reported that the Australian Federal Police has inquired about an unnamed member of parliament’s frequent travel to parts of South-East Asia, and that […]
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22 Dec 2018 |
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Michael McCormack has been sworn in as Australia’s new Deputy Prime Minister after he won a ballot to become the leader of the Nationals. The Nationals chose the member for Riverina as their new leader after Barnaby Joyce announced his resignation on Friday following weeks of scandal surrounding his extra-marital affair. Queensland MP George Christensen […]
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26 Feb 2018 |
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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 […]
Tags: Andrew Broad, Eric Abetz, George Christensen, Malcolm Turnbull
29 Nov 2017 |
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On the day his quarterly essay is released, author Benjamin Law has been criticised over a tweet he made late last month. Law, best known for his autobiographical book The Family Law, which inspired the popular SBS sitcom, is the author of the latest Quarterly Essay which focuses on the Safe Schools program. Titled Moral Panic 101: Equality, […]
Tags: Andrew Hastie, Benjamin Law, bullying, canning, Coalition for Marriage, gay, George Christensen, Lesbian, marriage equality, Quarterly Essay, safe schools, Same Sex Marriage, trans*, transgender
11 Sep 2017 |
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Claims of censorship, and retaliations of ‘fake news’, have broken out over an advertisement from lobby group Dads 4 Kids that Free TV Australia refused to air in its current form. The Weekend Australian and The Daily Mail reported today that the advocacy group Dads 4 Kids: Fatherhood Foundation had been knocked back from airing a television […]
Tags: Ben Pratt, Dads4Kids, Free TV Australia, George Christensen, Tony Abbott
2 Sep 2017 |
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SKY News political commentator Ross Cameron has defended his speech to the Q Society fundraiser telling colleague Janine Perrett that it was, in his view, a very pro-gay speech. The former Liberal MP was criticised yesterday for comments he made during a speech at a Sydney fundraiser for the Q Society, a right-wing anti-Islam group. […]
Tags: Bisexual, Cory Bernardi, gay, George Christensen, Janine Perrett, Kirralie SMith'Australian Liberty Alliance, Lesbian, LGBT, LGBTI, LGBTIQ, pro-gay, Q Society, queer, richard di natale, Ross Cameron, Sam Dastyari, SKY News, Sydney Morning Homosexual, trans*, transgender
11 Feb 2017 |
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Queensland Nationals member George Christensen told reporters yesterday that he has no plans to join Cory Bernardi’s new political party and remained loyal to his leader Barnaby Joyce. The conservative MP said it was vital that the coalition retained it’s election promise to hold a plebiscite on the issue of marriage equality. “If this government […]
Tags: bernardi, conservative, Cory Bernardi, George Christensen, Marriage, marriage equality, Nationals, plebiscite
7 Feb 2017 |
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The ABC have reported that South Australian Senator Cory Bernardi plans to announce that he will leave the Liberal Party to form a new political party of his own. The move would confirm whispers that started in March of last year, when The Australian reported that Senator Bernardi’s wife had registered trademarks for the name “Australian Conservatives”. The […]
Tags: Australian Conservatives, Cory Bernardi, Eric Abetz, George Christensen, marriage equality, One Nation, Pauline Hanson, Tony Abbott
6 Feb 2017 |
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Josh Frydenberg, the Minister for the Environment and Energy, has told SKY News that he believes the Labor party will cave in on the idea of a marriage equality plebiscite and allow the people to make the decision on whether same sex couples should be allowed to wed. Frydenberg said the only thing stopping marriage […]
Tags: AusPol, Bill SHorten, Christopher Pyne, Eric Abetz, gay, George Christensen, Intersex, Josh Frydenberg, Labor, Lesbian, LGBT, LGBTI, LGBTIQ, Liberal, Malcolm Turnbull, Mark Butler, Marriage, marriage equality, Nationals, plebiscite, queer, Same Sex Marriage, Tony Abott, trans*, transgender
5 Feb 2017 |
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