Exclusive: Opposition is refusing to comment on message to members on Queensland election eve promoting ban on puberty blockers for minors
LNP leader David Crisafulli is under growing pressure to clarify the party’s intentions on abortion, voluntary assisted dying and gender issues.LNP leader David Crisafulli is under growing pressure to clarify the party’s intentions on abortion, voluntary assisted dying and gender issues.
Guardian Australia has obtained an email from Baker, sent on party letterhead, to members promoting a speech by Jillian Spencer, a former public hospital psychiatrist who made allegations about the state’s children’s gender service. An independent investigationto support claims children were hurried or coerced into decisions, and recommended an increase in staff levels to meet demand.
“They’re not the things that Queenslanders are asking me about, whilst I understand it’s important. It is not what people are asking us right now,” she said.Crisafulli has long-promised that he would not seek to repeal or change Queensland’s abortion laws if the LNP is elected, and that it was not among the party’s core priorities.to alter Labor’s abortion laws, and even hinted he could push for a “clean repeal” which would re-establish a criminal offence.
Crisafulli was asked about the issue 39 times on Wednesday but would not say whether he would grant his MPs a conscience vote. Much of the concern – dubbed by some a “scare campaign” – about the prospect of changes to abortion laws under an LNP government surrounds long-held personal views of many opposition MPs and LNP candidates.
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