The Age, 8 May 2018:
A branch of the NSW
Liberal Party is set to debate the merits of Sharia-style corporal punishment
and a radical proposal to make citizens responsible for sentencing criminals
rather than judges.
The notoriously
hard-right Carlingford branch, under its colourful president George Popowski,
will discuss a push to "straighten out the law and order system" by
handing sentencing powers to a panel of 20 members of the public, with no more
than 30 per cent from the legal fraternity.
Mr Popowski, who
authored the motion, also urged the reintroduction of corporal punishment, arguing
it was the "fairest" form of retribution because "we all feel
the same pain".
He proposed 10 lashes
for theft of a T-shirt, 1000 lashes for stealing a car (2000 if the vehicle is
damaged), 5000 lashes for punching a police officer and 20,000 lashes for
murder.
The floggings should be
"delivered at 10 lashes per hour – every hour from 9am to 5pm, with
one hour for lunch", Mr Popowski wrote. The sentence would be doubled
for second-time offenders.
The Guardian, 18 March 2018:
The outspoken Liberal National party MP George Christensen has hit
out at his own government for its funding of abortion services in Australia and
around the world.
The federal member for Dawson was joined by the incoming Queensland senator Amanda
Stoker on
Sunday as they addressed hundreds of pro-lifers at a rally outside state
parliament in Brisbane.
Christensen said he was
filled with shame when he learned the federal Coalition gave $9.5m to an
international planned parenthood agency that he claimed made money from
terminations.
“I’ve got to say that was a disgraceful act,”
he said. “It was a very low point I think for our nation.”
Christensen said he
would write to the treasurer, Scott Morrison, this week to urge him to divert
funding from an international planned parenthood agency to pregnancy, crisis
and counselling services for young Australian mothers.
The rogue MP also
mobilised the crowd to take action against the state Labor government, which
will reintroduce legislation to decriminalise abortion once it receives
recommendations from the Law Reform Commission.
“I think we’re about to
get a tsunami of bad laws here,” he said. “We might even be seeing something
that makes Victoria and the draconian regime they’ve got there look like a walk
in the park.”
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