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A motion by One Nation Senator Malcolm Roberts condemning transgender treatments on children has failed, with Coalition senators siding with Labor & the Greens to defeat it.

“The Liberals call themselves conservatives and today we have seen five liberal senators, including ministers, cross the floor to support Australian children accessing irreversible treatments and surgery,” said Senator Malcolm Roberts.

“My motion was about protecting children from these irreversible treatments at a time when a therapeutic pathway should take precedence over a medical pathway.

“It’s a travesty when we let children under 16 years have double mastectomies in Australia”, he said.

Sweden’s leading gender clinic recently became the world’s first to end routine treatment of minors with experimental hormonal drugs.

In Australia, children as young as 10 years of age have been prescribed puberty blockers.

“It’s a sad day for all Liberal voters when their leader in the Senate, Simon Birmingham, crosses the floor and aligns himself with Labor and the Greens against the true conservatives in his party.

“The gang of five must be called to account for their sellout of conservative liberal values.

These are Senators Birmingham, Hume, Payne, Bragg and Colbeck.”

Speaking after the vote Senator Roberts said, “Adolescence is a confusing time and this is not the time for our children to make irreversible life changing decisions.

“It is no wonder that the Australian curriculum is loaded with anti-humanist, ideological rubbish when the former Minister for Education voted against my motion to protect children.

“Shame on him,” he said.

Liberal Senator Andrew Bragg was one of a number of Coalition senators who voted against the motion.

“We want to give people the maximum number of choices when they’re dealing with complicated issues as many trans people are. I think the idea that you would remove options like puberty blockers and other medical options from people is not appropriate,” Senator Bragg claimed.

“It’s not for politicians and the senate to be removing options from medical practitioners.

“I think it’s an inappropriate motion and I was pleased to see it defeated.”

Senator Bragg failed to mention that most children who suffer from gender dysphoria come to accept their real gender in time.

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A peaceful night vigil of hundreds of people at WA Parliament on June 16 will declare ‘No life is disposable at any time’ amid law changes that attack the safety of thousands of women and their children.

“Since we love all mothers and all their children, we reject the deceptive ‘Safe Access Zones’ Bill that threatens mandatory jail and huge fines for caring, silent offers of support to mothers,” said the rally organiser Darryl Budge, who is President of The Coalition for the Defence of Human Life.

“Mothers tell us that abortion leads to decades of pain and regret, and they wish they knew what damage it would do beforehand,” said the pro-life advocate who also represents FamilyVoice in WA.

“As a movement for life in WA, we mourn the deaths of 190,000 unborn children and the thousands of women who have been hurt since abortion was legalised in 1998.”

The WA government has a history of censoring offers of assistance to mothers in distress, according to Mr Budge.

“Amber-Jade Sanderson MLA has ordered the WA Health Department to delete pregnancy assistance groups like Abortion Grief Australia from the ‘Contacts’ section in three pregnancy-related Health Department brochures, even though the group employs qualified counsellors,” Mr Budge said.

“Ms Sanderson excused her discriminatory rejection of these three pregnancy assistance services in Parliament on November 10, by saying they were ‘religious’ and ‘outdated’.

“She did not explain why the government is already partnered with dozens of religious organisations to provide health, aged care, and welfare services.”

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The WA government’s ‘Safe Access’ Bill will have a profoundly detrimental effect on the safety of distressed mothers, according to the Coalition for the Defence of Human Life, which is holding a large rally against abortion on June 16.

“The truth about abortion may be uncomfortable but the solution is not the criminalisation of communication about these matters,” said CDHL President Darryl Budge, who also represents FamilyVoice in WA.

“After helping a woman fleeing an abusive situation, a woman can be jailed and fined $12,000, due to this Bill, for having an abortion-related conversation in a 300-metre radius of an abortion facility,” said the father-of-two, who is co-chairing the annual Rally for Life at WA Parliament on June 16.

Mr Budge said that the bill dehumanises women’s independent capacity to protect themselves and their children from abuse at any point in their lives.

“It is distressing that a woman’s free choice to seek help during her pregnancy will be judged and barred by a court, not herself.

“In over 20 years, not a single vigil attendee has been arrested or moved on by police near an abortion clinic in WA.

“This unsafe bill is anti-woman and anti-child. It places women in harm’s way.”

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Voted for the euthanasia bill:

David Basham, Finnis (Lib)
Frances Bedford, Florey (Ind)
Troy Bell, Mount Gambier (Ind)
Zoe Bettison, Ramsay (ALP)
Vickie Chapman, Bragg (Lib)
Matt Cowdrey, Colton (Lib)
Jon Gee, Taylor (ALP)
Eddie Hughes, Giles (ALP)
Steven Marshall, Dunstan (Lib)
Lee Odenwalder, Elizabeth (ALP)
David Pisoni, Unley (Lib)
Jayne Stinson, Badcoe (ALP)
Tim Whetstone, Chaffey (Lib)
Leon Bignell, Mawson (ALP)
Susan Close, Port Adelaide (ALP)
Fraser Ellis, Narungga (Ind)
Richard Harvey, Newland (Lib)
Paula Luethen, King (Lib)
Nick McBride, MacKillop (Lib)
Stephen Patterson, Morphett (Lib)
Carolyn Power, Elder (Lib)
Joe Szakacs, Cheltenham (ALP)
Corey Wingard, Gibson (Lib)
Blair Boyer, Wright (ALP)
Nat Cook, Hurtle Vale (ALP)
John Gardner Morialta (LIb)
Katrine Hildyard, Reynell (ALP)
Peter Malinauskas, Croydon (ALP)
Stephen Mullighan, Lee (ALP)
Chris Picton, Kaurna (ALP)
Rachel Sanderson, Adelaide (Lib)
Peter Treloar, Flinders (Lib)
Dana Wortley, Torrens (ALP)

*Geoff Brock, Frome (IND) - Did not vote but granted a pair in support of the bill.

Voted against the bill:

Dan Cregan, Kavel (Lib)
Tom Koutsantonis, West Torrens (ALP)
Adrian Pederick, Hammond (Lib)
Vincent Tarzia, Hartley (Lib)
Sam Duluk, Waite (Ind)
Andrea Michaels, Enfield (ALP)
Tony Piccolo, Light (ALP)
Dan van Holst Pellekaan
Stephan Knoll, Schubert (Lib)
Steve Murray, Davenport (Lib)
David Speirs, Black (Lib)

*Michael Brown, Playford (ALP) - Did not vote but granted a pair against the bill.

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Note: Speaker Josh Teague (Heyson - Lib) did not vote.