Gillard dumps Labor Senator for not being black

[nero_bolt]

Another STUNT by this desperate PM....

Wonder Gillard wiped KRUDDSs  blood of the knife before she stabbed a loyal senator or 25 years  in the back.

http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/andrewbolt/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/gillard_dumps_labor_senator_for_not_being_black/

It’s a clear case of racial discrimination. Prime Minister Julia Gillard dumps Senator Trish Crossin for being too white:

PRIME Minister Julia Gillard faces a fight to get former Olympian Nova Peris into the Senate, with current NT Senator Trish Crossin speaking out against the decision to replace her.

Ms Peris will stand for Labor at the upcoming election, with Julia Gillard declaring the party needs an indigenous representative in the Federal Parliament…

The Prime Minister personally selected the Aboriginal athlete for preselection as a senate candidate in the NT in a decision that has upset Labor’s serving senator, Trish Crossin.

Ms Gillard said she had engaged “in a captain’s pick’’ in endorsing the Olympic hockey gold medallist over Senator Crossin…

“There has never been an indigenous Australian who has served as a federal Labor representative,’’ she said.

“I’m determined that at the 2013 election we change that.’’

Let’s be clear. Gillard has given no reason for replacing Crossin with Peris other than that Peris is Aboriginal - and Crossin is not.

Nothing has been said about Crossin being less talented, less hard-working, less loyal. The public explanation for the move is entirely about Nova being of one “race” - and Crossin not.

The Australian Human Rights Commission is normally red hot against this kind of discrimination, and says there is a law against it: 

http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/andrewbolt/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/gillard_dumps_labor_senator_for_not_being_black/

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/national/former-olympian-nova-peris-to-seek-preselection-for-the-federal-senate/story-fncyva0b-1226559073672

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/former-olympian-nova-peris-to-seek-preselection-for-the-federal-senate/story-e6freuy9-1226559073672

[azureline**]

is Dawn Indigenous?

[polksaladallie]

I think SF is LD's proxy.

[nero_bolt]

Labor source says Gillard's Peris move is revenge over Rudd

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/labor-source-says-gillards-peris-move-is-revenge-over-rudd/story-e6frf7jo-1226559576381

Senator's removal a 'night of the long knives'

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/political-news/senators-removal-a-night-of-the-long-knives-20130123-2d...

This is going to backfire on Gillard and end very badly and its been done for all the wrong reason

[lakeland27]

who is that tennis player in bennelong anyway 🙂

[lakeland27]

who is that schoolboy again ? wyatt something .. not earp, the kid.

[silverfaun]

There it is writ large.

Join the Labor party, spend 15 years being a good foot soldier for the Labor  party, be a good honest worker, be well admired in the community, sacrifice your family life for service to the public under the Labor banner.

What is your well derserved reward for this?

DUMPED for a political novice.

[lakeland27]

There it is writ large.

Join the Labor party, spend 15 years being a good foot soldier for the Labor  party, be a good honest worker, be well admired in the community, sacrifice your family life for service to the public under the Labor banner.

What is your well derserved reward for this?

DUMPED for a political novice.

happens all the time. tenure is always insecure. the PM's especially. do you have a valid point ?

[catsnknots]

I STILL can't see anywhere where Gillard gave aboriginality as the reason for replacement? 

I heard Gillard on the radio say that Nova was chosen to represent an underrepresented portion of the community. That is was about time that aboriginal women in this country were represented in Parliament.

Warren Mundine should have been given the Senate seat by Labor but it was Given to Carr instead. Then Labor could have had their first Aboriginal senator. But they gave it to Carr instead and a lot of people were not happy about this, Mundine had done a lot for the Labor party. Mundine was so upset and hurt he actually left the Labor party for good. He made a very public statement about his feelings on the treatment of Aborigines via the hands of Labor. 

I think this is a three fold thing for Gillard.

One to get the "first female aboriginal senator" the other is to punish the sitting member for being a supporter of Rudd and the other is an Emilie's list thing... but I am yet to find proof on that one but I am sure it will come up..... 😛

[lakeland27]

one of the blokes at news is bound to come up with that for you by the end of the day 🙂

[catsnknots]

So there was a legitimate Aboriginal woman that was a long term member of the party that could have been chosen for the job.... Yet Gillard stood in and over rode the people of the NT Labor party and made the decision herself. 

And LL.... I do my own research, I don't need a newspaper to find the Emilie's list details I need. 

After Ms Gillard said she was "very troubled" the party was without Aboriginal representation, backbenchers accused her of hypocrisy and of putting political expediency ahead of principle

Ms Peris today defended the prime minister's call.

"I think with the prime minister yesterday, I think she's handled it the way that she saw - the best way to do it," she told the Seven Network.

"I can't really get involved in the nuts and bolts of the party process but if you look at the Northern Territory, Labor lost its last election ... there was lack of representation from Aboriginal women in the NT."

Ms Peris said she felt "honoured" to have been selected for her work in health and education rather than her high profile as an athlete.

"When I had the talks with Labor officials they said it wasn't what I'd done on the sporting field, with all due respect, it was actually what I had done at the national level with the community work and the amount of stuff with health, youth and education."

However, former NT education minister Marion Scrymgour, who was Australia's first indigenous female minister, had stuck up her hand to run against Ms Crossin for preselection for the Senate ticket.

She received a phone call from Ms Gillard letting her know the race was over.

Ms Scrymgour told the ABC that the prime minister would have her way, but the NT felt robbed of having its say.

http://www.news.com.au/national/labor-source-says-gillards-peris-move-is-revenge-over-rudd/story-fncynjr2-1226559576381