Latham attacks gay activist under parliamentary privilege
One Nation NSW leader, Mark Latham MLC, has been accused of misusing parliamentary privilege to launch an attack on Sydney gay activist Garry Burns. In …
One Nation NSW leader, Mark Latham MLC, has been accused of misusing parliamentary privilege to launch an attack on Sydney gay activist Garry Burns. In …
The pack, which was funded and compiled by anti-trans lobby group Binary Australia, encourages parents to quiz schools over which bathrooms trans students use and warns against “indoctrination programs” that use “politically correct ‘code’ words like ‘anti-bullying'”.
Latham also used his speech to suggest white men were an oppressed class.
“I don’t have a woman boss and I don’t have a gay boss, and there’s a reason for that.”
Member for Coogee Bruce Notley-Smith became the first openly gay MP elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, but looks set to lose the historically Labor-held seat to Marjorie O’Neill.
Latham claimed that trans people self-identifying, and not transphobia, was the cause of high rates of mental health issues and suicide among trans people.
“Let’s be clear about what has happened,” Senator Penny Wong said of the backflip. “Some right wing commentators have got angry about it so the Prime Minister, Scott Morrison and the Liberal Party decided to change their mind.”
Yiannopoulos said Australians should vote No in the postal survey just weeks after his own same-sex wedding and has called trans people “mentally damaged”.
“NSW One Nation believes in supporting biological and medical science, rather than radical Left-wing propaganda,” Latham said.
Latham argued in 2017 that there was no justification for marriage equality because there weren’t enough gay couples to warrant it being a national issue.