Stuart

It is the job of legislators to consider all intended & unintended consequences of amendments. @JuliaGillard’s answer here is an admission that her government did not do their job. Therefore, she remains Australia’s first woman prime minister who destroyed women’s rights, even if she didn’t mean to. It is, however, true that there is no evidence that legislators *did* intend for women’s sex based rights to be destroyed by adding gender identity to the sex discrimination act. That has happened because of ideological activists in the sex discrimination commission, the custodians of the act, who have interpreted the law to the point of removing women from it (but don’t worry, men who claim to be women are covered by law for potential pregnancy…). Also, the judiciary has arguably been legislating from the bench. This is my opinion: I don’t care how or why they did it at this point. I care about fixing it. The fact that *this week* the @AlboMP government has dismissed the issue, blocking both @SenatorCash & @PaulineHansonOz’s bills, will only serve to make him look even more foolish than Julia because he can’t hide behind not knowing the unintended consequences.

🇦🇺 Australia: Anti-Israel ex-nurse Ahmad Rashad Nadir, 28, has had his drug possession charge (morphine vial allegedly found in his Bankstown Hospital locker) dismissed at Bankstown Local Court. Judge ruled the search evidence inadmissible. His lawyer called it a ‘great result’. This is Nadir’s second win — last week, the viral video of him and colleague Sarah Abu Lebdeh allegedly threatening to refuse Israeli patients & making offensive comments was also struck out as evidence. They’ve both pleaded not guilty to menacing/offensive charges and face a District Court jury trial at the end of August. Their nursing registrations remain suspended. Source: theage.com.au/national/great…