An Almost Impossible Loss
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison is sticking by his controversial pick for the seat of Warringah after the NSW Treasurer said "she's got to go" over her comments about transgender people.
Key points:
- Deves had likened her lobbying to keep transgender athletes out of women's sport to standing up against Nazis
- NSW Treasurer says there's 'no place for that vile bigotry in a mainstream political party'
- The current Warringah member called for her opponent's disendorsement earlier this week
New South Wales Treasurer Matt Kean has called on Liberal candidate for Warringah Katherine Deves to be disendorsed over a series of comments she made online.
Ms Deves has apologised on multiple occasions this week, including after revelations she likened her lobbying to stop transgender athletes from competing in women's sport to standing up against the Holocaust.
Ms Deves is the hand-picked Liberal in the seat once held by former prime minister Tony Abbott. She was pre-selected at the last minute after bitter factional infighting within the party.
Mr Kean, who is a leader of the moderate faction in New South Wales, told the ABC there should be no room for her views inside the Liberal Party.
"She's got to go," Mr Kean said.
"There is no place for that vile bigotry in a mainstream political party or quite frankly anywhere.
"I am sick of people turning a blind eye to it."
SKY
Billionaire Clive Palmer was rushed to hospital after falling off the stage during a rehearsal of his United Australia Party campaign launch on the Sunshine Coast on Good Friday.
Palmer has a nasty gash on his head after slipping and landing awkwardly from a stage set-up at his Coolum resort.
First aid was administered on site and he was transported to hospital where he was later discharged.
About 1000 people will attend the UAP launch and Palmer said they knocked back about another 10000 who wanted to attend.
"I think people are looking for an alternative. Australians are losing their homes. They are really worried about interest rates going up ... and UAP has a solution for that," he said.
"We're tackling the issue about repaying our national debt by having Chinese and Japanese pay for it when they buy our iron ore ... and we want to bring our budget balance back to zero."
Enacting a Bill of Rights outlawing lockdowns protecting the right of all Australians to choose medical treatment and preserving freedom of speech would be the UAP's first tasks if elected to government.
THE NEW DAILY
In all my corporate experience of crisis management I know that nothing will reveal good or bad job performance in a leader as much as a crisis.
And it’s revealed first to those who work closely with them. Someone who will see at close range the real person, whether they can be trusted.
Someone who will show up, act quickly, accept that perfection is the enemy of the good. Be accountable and not duck and weave, spin or blame shift.
During the Black Summer bushfires just over two years ago, our country burned. Vast expanses of our cities and regions were engulfed in smoke.
We despaired at the reports and images, while photos emerged of Morrison in full holiday mode in Hawaii, giving a thumbs up, standing next to his friend with beer in hand. When he grudgingly returned, he said “I don’t hold a hose”.
“Lives are at stake today and he [Morrison] is just obsessed with political point scoring.”
“Morrison is a horrible, horrible person. He is actively spreading lies and briefing against me re fires” [and he is] “more concerned with politics not people”.
There’s the backgrounding, the lies, the ducking and weaving, the announcements and platitudes which go nowhere. And zero accountability.
When he’s challenged, his brazen response will often be along the lines of, ‘it’s not my narrative’, or ‘that’s the narrative others put on you. It’s not a narrative that I share’.
But the ‘others’ Morrison is referring to are more often than not from within his own party, not his natural opponents in the Labor Party.
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