TOO many politicians seemingly embrace the moral low ground with almost every ethical decision laid before them.
Whether sexualising pre-teens in “Safe Schools” classrooms, giving the nod to late term abortions, watering down bestiality laws or allowing HIV-infected people to “hide” their condition from bed partners – they almost always manage to lower community standards.
Just this week it was reported that politicians in Queensland had rejected a Royal Commission recommendation to outlaw teachers from engaging in sexual intercourse with their students.
According to The Australian newspaper, Queensland’s Palaszczuk government is more concerned with the sexual “abuse” of lifelike dolls than with people in authority having sex with their charges.
Despite being a cornerstone recommendation of the five-year Royal Commission into the Institutional Response to Child Sexual Abuse, Queensland’s ALP government had it removed from its proposed law reforms.
The reforms do, however, include tough sentences for the supply and use of childlike sex dolls and, also, mandate the reporting of child abuse.
While the government acknowledges its reforms do omit “position of authority” offences, it offers no explanation why.
The Royal Commission, which was set-up in 2013 by then Labor Prime Minister Julia Gillard, handed down its recommendations in 2017.
Queensland’s decision to water down sensible and ethical recommendations has been greeted with the usual fed-up despair from the community.
Child abuse advocates said Queensland’s proposed reforms leave a known “loophole that had already been exploited by teachers and people in positions of authority”.
Liberal National Party spokesman David Janetzki said it was obvious child sexual abuse had not been a priority for the Palaszczuk Labor government.
“Three years have passed since the Royal Commission’s final report and survivors are still awaiting closure,” he said.
The Royal Commission’s recommendation called for it to be an offence for a person in a position of authority to have sexual intercourse with a person aged 16 or 17 in their care. All other mainland States have adopted similar laws.
The Catholic Education Commission said it had urged the Queensland government, to no avail, to give “consideration to the introduction of such an offence”.PC
The Palaszczuk Politicians are disgusting! They are completely lacking in moral principles and Queensland families need to stand up to their depravity by voting them OUT!
Hypocrisy laid bare, left wing politicians and media so keen to expose Christian scandals (fair enough!), but at the same time keen to sexualise kids with “safe schools”propaganda, remove parental consent and keep legal loop holes for sexual predators. The “Left” is full of it.
How the situation viv a vis teachers having sex with students was laid bare for Australia in all its tawdry perfidy was clearly demonstrated in the Podcast “ Teacher’s Pet”. If that podcast showed us anything, it was the dire and immediate need to have serious criminal consequences for teachers who think the students are there for their use.
The fact that this recommendation by the Royal Commission into the Abuse of Children was completely ignored makes me ill and strongly questioning the motivations of the people concerned, who made this clearly wrong decision.
The LNP needs to make this an election issue. Let’s see Labor defend that decision.
Such a law obviously does not sit well with the social engineering agenda of the left. They know no shame.
Hubby