Labor’s task is to show Peter Dutton would make life worse not better. The problem is, the person who has to make that case has shown repeatedly that his judgment cannot be trusted.
The core issues during the US presidential election were cost of living, immigration, abortion and the character of the candidates. These same issues – intractable, incendiary and dispiriting – will also figure here in the next federal election, which threatens to be as close, as unpredictable and as divisive.
The LNP’s efforts to dismiss it as a scare campaign fell flat. For good reason. It sounded real. It still does. Former Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce backed Price. LNP Senator Matt Canavan cautioned against prosecuting the issue “through the heat of an election campaign”. Canavan has co-sponsored the Human Rights Bill 2022 with Liberal South Australian Senator Alex Antic, to compel medical staff to treat babies “born alive” after termination.
Liberal Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s recent comments on abortion have created a headache for Opposition Leader Peter Dutton.In 1979, an ambitious young federal National Party MP, Stephen Lusher, moved to deny Medicare benefits for abortions. The all-male House of Representatives voted it down after moderate Liberals mobilised against it.
Even if they do stay quiet, that does not mean others will. In Queensland, Katter has said he plans to “test” the parliament, initially on late-term abortions.
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