The recent QLD Election only exemplified our broken, violent "democratic" system. Neither women nor children stood to be protected — not by the Liberals and not by Labor, writes Tom Tanuki . THE LNP WON the recent Queensland State Election with a campaign marked by proposals to criminalise abortions and introduce "adult time, adult crime" laws, which would contravene international human rights standards in order to paint targets on the backs of children.
By pandering to racist, "youth crime"-fixated voters and the anti-autonomy religious Right, then, yes, it won. Or Labor lost. It’s a tragedy and a disgrace because I don’t want to see women’s reproductive rights stripped and I don’t want to see the safety and welfare of Indigenous kids ditched to curry cheap political favour with some of the worst people in Australia.
Queenslanders have one hope, at least: that LNP leader David Crisafulli is full of shit. After all, while he did promise his MPs a conscience vote on the matter last year, the unpopularity of the bill – which seemed to erode the margin of the predicted win from a landslide to a near-minority government – led to the typical mainstream bi-partisan panicked weaselling and back-flipping that we expect from Labor and Liberal. Denying hungry kids and women’s rights with David Crisafulli et al There is something wrong with our national priorities if we allow Crisafulli's LNP to prop up mining and development interests, and decide women's reproductive ch.
