In 1976, then Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser appointed the first ever Minister for Women.
He wanted something formal put in place to make sure women’s affairs were given the right attention in government affairs.
As you can imagine, if one takes on the role they’re supposed to be thinking about gender equality, domestic violence, sexism and one would think – reproductive rights.
A woman’s right to choose what she does with her body.
A woman’s right to bodily autonomy.
Well. That’s what we’d hope they’d be fighting for.
Explaining abortion to Uncle Barnaby. Post continues after video.
For those of us simply stunned that New South Wales is having to fight in 2019 to dismantle archaic laws that make abortion a criminal act, last night’s announcement of a spill motion against the Premier for her pro-choice support was just another blow.
We’ve been in the trenches on this topic for about four months now, and the majority of us are mighty tired.
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Forget about Abbott. His own party knifed him and his own electorate booted him out of Parliament.
More concerning is the behaviour of the NSW Liberals. They held a conscience vote, and the majority supported the changes to the Abortion bill. And yet a few rebels threatened Gladys with a leadership spill threat.
Throwing a tantrum because they didn't get their way is juvenile.
I read the study you're referring to when you say that 73 per cent of NSW constituents think abortion should be legal.
I found the first question, which was (paraphrasing) did you know abortion is currently listed as an offence under the NSW Crimes Act of 1900, a little odd. How many people are aware of the act that makes something illegal? How many people chose No, because they knew it was illegal but didn't know the act?
When asked do you think abortion should be removed from the act and treated as a health care service, you are right in saying 73% did, but not all of them thought you should be able to get an abortion when you want one, only 58% of people thought that.
Just about everyone thought that is a doctor conscientiously objects they have to send them to another doctor, so that's something at least.
Well, who can blame them. For close to 15 years the public has again and again in overwhelmingly numbers rejected the idea of boat people getting to stay here, but that never gave the Greens or Labor left a moments pause to accept we don’t want open borders did it?
So why can’t conservatives stick to their guns?
Because it's backward and non-progressive. I don't want to live in a country that is going back in time and I'd rather interact with people who aren't all white Australians. It would be small-minded to want to.