While the Liberal Baillieu Government has come across as a pretty moderate outfit (which is why I supported them over Brumby) during its first 6 months in office, it should be remembered that they are still a "conservative" Government, and eternal vigilance is required.
And as an example, it looks like they've got a real right royal wiredo on the back benches by the name of Geoff Shaw see here . This bloke belongs to those God awful pentecostals (who are the worst of the worst), and while the angle of the story has focused on his gay/child molester jibe, I think equally insulting have been his comments in his maiden Parliamentary speech where he acknowledged ''the original owner of the land on which we stand - God, the Creator, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of the Bible''. This was nothing but a deliberate slap in the face directed towards Aborigines, a not so pleasant reminder that there's still plenty of people in the Liberal Party (and not just in West Australia) who don't go for this land rights justice mumbo jumbo for the "original owners", and that they'll need to take second place to God.
Of course while the Aborigines were the original peoples of this "Terra Nova", for a Member of Parliament to go into the chamber and make a speech to essentially claim ownership of the land to an abstract being, is plainly ridiculous.....but perhaps fitting for a pentecostal.
But to give you an example of how these pentecostals operate (and going back to the original story), instead of replying to his constituent with something along the lines of "thank you for your feedback etc etc", he just got nasty, in fact brutally nasty. From the reported remarks, what way is that to speak to a 20 year old constituent? But no doubt the "red rag to a bull" was the fact that this kid was gay, so immediately in the eyes of your average hate filled pentecostal he's "evil" and no longer needs to be treated with the respect deserving of a constituent.
A nutter for Baillieu to keep an eye on indeed.
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