SECRETARY of the NSW Liberal Women’s Council Natarsha Terreio has described quotas as “tokenism”, while arguing that there is no gender discrimination in Party preselections. “The problem isn’t that women aren’t winning preselection,” Ms Terreio said. “It’s that far fewer women than men are putting themselves forward. The data is clear.”
DEPUTY NSW Premier John Barilaro says he backs coal to the hilt while his energy minister Matt Kean has announced he wants to be completely rid of it. Mr Barilaro has promised there would never be a moratorium on coal while Mr Kean’s failed choice for climate tsar, Malcolm Turnbull, publicly pushed for an immediate end to coal mining licences.
THE Prime Minister resembles a mindless fish which swallows any bait dangled in front of it. Most are from ABC fiefdoms which realise that any sexual assault allegation, even unprovable, is his Achilles heel.
THE decision to appoint deposed PM Malcom Turnbull as NSW’s climate tzar has backfired spectacularly with Premier Gladys Berejiklian being accused of betrayal. Others have called for NSW Energy & Environment Minister Matt Kean to follow Mr Turnbull out the door.
THREE weeks after WA’s radical Liberals were butchered at the ballot box, NSW Minister Matt Kean has called for the Party to shift even further Left. The WA Liberals, which now holds just two of the State’s 59 seats, had attempted to outgreen The Greens, calling for net-zero carbon emissions a full 20 years earlier than Labor.
ANGER for the increasingly radical NSW Energy & Environment Minister Matt Kean has become uncontained, with Liberals in his own backyard now publicly venting their frustration. High profile Party member Bob Partington this week tore strips off his local MP after the appointment of deposed prime minister Malcom Turnbull into a taxpayer-funded “warming warrior” role.
WOMEN have been warned by Australia’s most experienced female politician that parliament is not a pleasant workplace – and never will be. Former Federal Speaker of the House Bronwyn Bishop, who left parliament in 2016 as the nation’s longest serving female MP, said women should stay clear of politics if they’re scared of a fight.
MATT Kean’s appointment of Malcolm Turnbull as NSW’s zero emissions tzar has been described by voters as ridiculous, an abomination and political suicide.The former prime minister was this week tasked with de-carbonising NSW after his “good friend” handed him the chairmanship of NSW’s Net Zero Emissions & Clean Economy Board.
SOUTH Australian senator Rex Patrick has accused Premier Steven Marshall of “sleeping with the enemy” after the State leader spoke at the opening of a new Chinese consulate in Adelaide – where he was shouted down by hundreds of protestors.
SO-CALLED conservative politicians will face electoral annihilation if they follow Labor down the gender quota rat hole. This assessment from Sky News commentator Rita Panahi follows moves by Liberal Prime Minister Scott Morrison to introduce quotas to counter recent allegations of sexual misbehaviour by political staffers.
