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Australian politics live: Lambie compares ‘dangerous’ Hanson to Trump; NSW One Nation leader wants abortion ‘stopped’
Newman later said he misspoke, as critics said the bill would reopen abortion debate and lacks enough support to pass the upper house.
- On Tuesday night, NSW One Nation leader Mike Newman addressed an anti-abortion rally in Sydney, declaring his party would seek to "stop" abortion rights in the state if elected.
- The rally supported a private member's bill from Libertarian MP John Ruddick, which seeks to outlaw abortions performed for the "sole purpose of sex selection" despite existing health guidelines.
- A 2020 NSW Health review identified 15,973 terminations between 2019 and 2020, finding only 13 cases flagged for sex selection, with 10 likely being reporting errors rather than actual gender-based terminations.
- Following criticism, Newman backtracked on Wednesday, claiming he "misspoke" at the rally and that One Nation opposes late-term and sex-selective procedures, not abortion "outright."
- NSW Premier Chris Minns criticized Newman's shifting stance, while Greens MP Amanda Cohn described the bill as a "thinly veiled attempt" to re-criminalize reproductive healthcare with no evidence of the problem.
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NSW One Nation leader says party will ‘stop’ abortion rights
Mike Newman, the investment banker turned One Nation leader, told an anti-abortion rally outside parliament on Tuesday that One Nation wanted abortion “stopped” while also seeming to confuse the issue with same-sex marriage.
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A significant political storm is brewing in Australia, marked by sharp exchanges between prominent figures and renewed debates over contentious social issues. Independent Senator Jacqui Lambie recently drew a striking comparison between One Nation leader Pauline Hanson and form US President Donald Trump, laboring Hanson's political approach as dangerous.
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