The Queensland cross-bench MP, Robbie Katter, says he thinks Liberal Nationwide occasion candidates who made anti-abortion feedback previous to the state election had been “dog whistling” however have little intention of deviating from the occasion line.
The Katter’s Australian occasion chief instructed ABC Radio Nationwide on Tuesday that he would nonetheless search to “test the parliament” on a possible personal member’s invoice to wind again some components of Queensland’s 2018 legal guidelines that decriminalised abortion.
The KAP MP’s vow to take action in the course of the state election marketing campaign turned abortion rights into a major situation, credited with serving to Labor to forestall the lack of extra seats in Brisbane and its surrounds.
The incoming Crisafulli authorities has mentioned it has “no plans” to reform the legal guidelines and that there might be “no changes”. But when Katter brings a non-public member’s invoice, the longstanding LNP follow is to carry a conscience vote.
A number of LNP MPs – together with Tony Perrett and Jon Krause – mentioned early within the marketing campaign they both opposed the legal guidelines, or may try and repeal them.
Over the last parliament, Katter tabled a “babies born alive” invoice that might mandate life-saving interventions on the extraordinarily uncommon events the place an unviable foetus is born alive. Healthcare professionals say claims by anti-choice foyer teams concerning the scenario quantity to misinformation.
Katter instructed the ABC that he had been requested if he would take into account a non-public member’s invoice and mentioned “of course I would, that’s what we do … and it blew up from there”.
“I haven’t worked that out [what a bill might look like] I’m sorry we can’t give you more detail. I got pulled into the debate, and all I can say is we will be testing the parliament on it.”
However Katter mentioned he was sceptical that LNP MPs, together with these beforehand on-record supporting reform, would help his invoice.
“I think they were all dog whistling. Some of the motivation behind it is all these people going around trying to pretend they’ve got values in one direction when they’ve got no intention of voting against their party, or knowing that a conscience vote isn’t really a conscience vote.”
LNP sources say the occasion is “acutely aware” that it had not made inroads into Brisbane electorates to the identical extent because the areas, and that the brand new premier, David Crisafulli, would deal with placing ahead a modern-looking authorities.
“The sorts of scare campaigns that have been run hark back to a version of the party that is not David’s version,” a celebration supply mentioned.
“In four years’ time, Labor won’t have abortion, it won’t have Campbell Newman. It won’t have much at all.”
Counting continued in as much as 10 seats that stay within the steadiness after Saturday’s election.
Labor seems to have taken a slim lead in Pine Rivers, the place outgoing minister Nikki Boyd had earlier been in bother.
The depend in Gaven, on the northern Gold Coast, has additionally narrowed. Labor’s housing minister, Meaghan Scanlon, is taken into account the occasion’s rising star and is combating off a problem from former TV reporter Bianca Stone.
Scanlon’s lead on election night time has been reduce to an estimated 290 votes and the seat stays too near name.
