on 22-01-2013 06:04 PM
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
on 25-01-2013 08:13 PM
Gillard also effectively discarded an experienced ALP Indigenous woman who was challenging Trish Crossin for the Senator position. There were certainly other choices ...
on 25-01-2013 11:33 PM
It's all gone pear shaped for Ms Gillard.
Is there ANYTHING she can do without stuffing it?. Even her own caucus are now worried that she has no judgement. Pity it's taken them so long to see was there for all to see from day one.
We're only 3 weeks into the election year & look at the lies & spin so far.