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Taylor repeats claim gender quotas ‘subvert democracy’
Angus Taylor says the Labor party “subvert democracy” by having quotas for women.
You know what, the Labor party will do things their own way, and they do subvert democracy, and that’s a matter for them.
At the end of the day, if you’re going to have quotas, it means you are going to subvert democratic processes.
Well, you know, within the Labor Party or the Liberal Party, we have pre-selection processes, and I want those to be democratic processes.
I’ve long been a crusader on this, as I have long been a crusader on attracting and retaining and mentoring talented people, including, of course, women in our party.
This is very different to a lot of the other listings that we’ve done. When people normally think about a terrorist organisation, you think small groups of people, meeting in private rooms, finding people to recruit and working as a cell.
If people imagine a big chat group dedicated to hatred and violence, it’s a situation where the members won’t necessarily know each other. They won’t necessarily know the people who they’re recruiting, but the concept of what they are trying to do is a direct threat to the safety of Australians, and there have been specific instances where this is being used in order to threaten Australians.
The sort of hatred we’re talking about here, it’s sometimes loosely referred to as extreme rightwing terrorism. You’re talking about things like white supremacism. Those sorts of views. And they encourage not just the sharing of the hatred, but the sharing of acts of violence, and how to guides for people to be able to commit these sorts of acts of violence.
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/jun/27/coalition-party-room-election-review-sussan-ley-terrorgram-listed-as-terrorist-organisation-ntwnfb
Author : Rafqa Touma
Publish date : 2025-06-26 22:10:00
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