Are you kucking fidding?
It's hard not to just throw in the towel and move to New Zealand when you read today of a push by Liberal backbenchers to put a ban on Muslim headscarfs in state schools.
The push - launched by MP Sophie Panopoulos - has been given new weight today with Bronwyn Bishop backing the ban on national television.
"What we're really seeing in our country is a clash of cultures and indeed, the headscarf is being used as a sort of iconic item of defiance," she says.
Dems leader Lyn Allison hit on the head when she described the call as deliberatly divisive: "It seems to me that by saying that young people who go to state schools wish to wear a head scarf they can't but they can wear a head scarf if they go to a religious school."
"What that says is that we want to be separated. It doesn't say we want integration and that we want to improve relations between cultural groups and religious groups.
"It says if you are religious, you should go to a religious school."
You may remember ol' Bron from such government scandals as the "Riverside Nursing Home kerosine baths". You remember. It got her demoted to the backbench and she's been doing all she can to stay relevant since.
Brendan Nelson doesn't support the ban - HOLY CRAP, I AGREE WITH BRENDAN NELSON - so hopefully this will die a quick death. No thanks to BRON.
"Show me some skin."
The push - launched by MP Sophie Panopoulos - has been given new weight today with Bronwyn Bishop backing the ban on national television.
"What we're really seeing in our country is a clash of cultures and indeed, the headscarf is being used as a sort of iconic item of defiance," she says.
Dems leader Lyn Allison hit on the head when she described the call as deliberatly divisive: "It seems to me that by saying that young people who go to state schools wish to wear a head scarf they can't but they can wear a head scarf if they go to a religious school."
"What that says is that we want to be separated. It doesn't say we want integration and that we want to improve relations between cultural groups and religious groups.
"It says if you are religious, you should go to a religious school."
You may remember ol' Bron from such government scandals as the "Riverside Nursing Home kerosine baths". You remember. It got her demoted to the backbench and she's been doing all she can to stay relevant since.
Brendan Nelson doesn't support the ban - HOLY CRAP, I AGREE WITH BRENDAN NELSON - so hopefully this will die a quick death. No thanks to BRON.
"Show me some skin."
posted by haywire at 14:39
1 Comments:
I swear these bastards take it in turns: one of them proposes something really crazy and repressive and another one talks it down, then next week they swap. This serves to communicate two messages:
1. "Look how moderate we are, we're totally not raving fascist autocrats at all!"
2. "But we COULD be. Don't forget that."
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