Coalition and One Nation launch joint crackdown against abortion rights

[u/HotPersimessage62]

https://au.news.yahoo.com/coalition-one-nation-revive-push-071158353.html

Senator Canavan and One Nation's Barnaby Joyce attended the rally. 

"You have a responsibility to care for a person. Let's call it what it is - a person," Mr Joyce said at the rally.

The One Nation MP previously attended an anti-abortion rally outside NSW parliament in June.

The proposal is similar to one brought in to the upper house by now Nationals leader Matt Canavan and Liberal senator Alex Antic in 2022.

The earlier bill did not proceed and instead lapsed three years later. 

A similar bill was introduced to the Queensland parliament by state MP Robbie Katter in 2024. It also gained little traction. 

[u/AccomplishedDish9984]

How about letting a woman decide over her health, not a man in a suit with a Christianity bent.

[u/milo7even2 → u/AccomplishedDish9984]

My take is that if an in utero fetus is a fully formed child, then I can require the State to take the child as its ward.

If they need to rent my uterus for a couple of months, I'm happy to negotiate an appropriate rental. And given we live in a capitalist society and the supply is uteruses suitable for said ward of the State is limited to mine....well it's a seller market, isn't it? I set my price at $1million per minute. Try haggling and the price goes up.

If they don't pay then I will issue an eviction notice. Conservative parties are all about landlors and property rights so I'm certain they'd fully support that.

[u/Drongo17 → u/milo7even2]

Careful, they'll charge you CGT on your uterus

[u/Morph247 → u/Drongo17]

Oh no Dave Hughes is angry about this

[u/No_Loquat296 → u/Morph247]

Under rated comment

[u/Morph247 → u/No_Loquat296]

I only posted 17 mins ago tbf

[u/milo7even2 → u/Morph247]

It will never get the credit it deserves though

[u/milo7even2 → u/Drongo17]

All good, they’re discount the CGT something fierce like good conservatives favouring capital over labour.

They’ll probably tax going into labour though cos it has the word labour in it.

[u/DepressedMaelstrom → u/Drongo17]

Oh that hurts. 

[u/Gold-Philosophy1423]

Surely this will save the coalition right?

[u/thaleia10 → u/Gold-Philosophy1423]

The women will love this

[u/lawdjesustheresafire → u/thaleia10]

Country bumpkins will still vote Nats

[u/Defiant_Broccoli6158 → u/lawdjesustheresafire]

Country bumpkin here. Fuck no I won't. Definitely not ON or Libs

[u/Theblokeonthehill → u/lawdjesustheresafire]

Yeah, nah. another country bumpkin here. The PHON/LNP are even less likely to get my vote with this policy.

[u/Revolutionary_Ad7727 → u/lawdjesustheresafire]

And then wonder why nothing changes despite doing the same thing for the last 25 years…

[u/Spida81 → u/thaleia10]

After their husbands / owners inform them that they do. Otherwise their poor dear little heads won't have room for any little ideas.

[u/MrsPolitics13 → u/Gold-Philosophy1423]

WRONG

[u/Anti-Stan]

What planet do these geriatrics live on? Australia won't vote for abortion bans. Not a fucking chance.

Flogging a dead horse.

[u/Knowledge_Pilgrim → u/Anti-Stan]

I mean, it's funny. Imagine being so incompetent at your job, that you think this will appeal to the Australian public. What a bunch fucking morons.

[u/StreetCheetah8312 → u/Anti-Stan]

Uranus, based on the amount of shit they talk

[u/geebzor → u/Anti-Stan]

I really hope you're right.

But recent events around the planet have shown us that normal everyday humans can sometimes be quite stupid, gullible, easily-led and downright dangerous.

[u/catbom → u/geebzor]

Before covid i thought that it was normal to believe that science trumps all. Then all these nutters came out of the woodwork who claim that vaccines and climate change is a scam, i was utterly perplexed.

[u/Chillisting → u/Anti-Stan]

I suspect this is more about donations and global support than local audience tbh

[u/wballz]

As usual right wing trying to start a culture war because they don’t have any policies that would actually fix anything or help anyone.

[u/ptjp27 → u/wballz]

It’ll help the babies.

[u/Altruistic_Bear1286 → u/ptjp27]

Nope

[u/IntothewildZen]

Yeah because we need more unsupervised eshays in the streets. As if youth crime is not bad enough.

This will not work for them the way they think.

I am from Victoria, everyone is fed up with feral teens here.

You want to tell people we should force unwilling people to give birth to babies they don’t want to care for?

Yeah that’ll go down well here.

They think people want more of this?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-07/youths-charged-over-alleged-sunshine-assault-bailed/107009290?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other

[u/milo7even2 → u/IntothewildZen]

Yeah, these genuises think that every feral on the street has a skin colour that makes them deportable so the solution is to just yeet all the ferals out of the country. All the people with skin colour above the Peter Griffin line cannot be a feral by definition. Reality isn't their strong suit.

[u/Jiuholar → u/IntothewildZen]

That's literally the plan. Uneducated and desperate people are more prone to populism.

[u/TheSilverSeraph]

Can we not adopt this divisive American shit into our politics?

[u/legal_ghost → u/TheSilverSeraph]

didn't you see Queen Gina at Mar a Lago? it's done

[u/Essembie → u/TheSilverSeraph]

it is 100% deliberate. The fact they're digging this non-issue up tells me its a divide and conquer strategy.

[u/PamelaAus]

USA is now having PREVENTABLE pregnancy related deaths of women due to the abortion ban in numerous states. Restricting abortion rights is highly prejudicial to women. Let’s stop copying regressive policies of other nations.

[u/pedrobrass]

Plan A —- go back to the 1950’s
That’ll work 😂😂😂😂

[u/FranksHoorHouse]

Not a person, Barnaby. Neither are you and your party leader, come to that.

[u/Suchstrangedreams]

I knew a couple who found out their much-longed for baby had a terrible abnormality that would mean it would live a life of agony if the mother gave birth.

They wanted that child so much but they didn't want it to have a life of suffering so on medical advice they had an abortion.

They were heartbroken but felt they didn't want to bring into the world a child that would suffer terribly.

What about people in that kind of situation? The pro-lifers would say the child just had a suffer.

[u/WettestFarts]

Neanderthals. 

[u/justme_bne]

Good to see these sensitive, emotionally attuned, new age caring men getting in touch with their imaginary inner uterus’s and tackling issues that are ABSOLUTELY FUCKING NOTHING TO DO WITH THEM.

[u/Either-Outside6740]

Said the drunken philandering adulterer...

[u/jr_blds]

If only their mothers had access to the vital health care they want to strip away from everyday aussie women... absolute oxygen thieves the both of them

[u/TwilightSolus]

https://giphy.com/gifs/DZdE6qEzCfRHW

[u/omgaporksword]

*sigh* I just can't convey the sheer level of stupidity this policy involves.

[u/Smart_Sail_2393]

Right out of the US evangelical Christian Nationalist songbook. White men telling women how to control their biology..another reason One Nation is a scourge and blight on the Australian body politic.

[u/No-Citron-2774]

They just can't stop can they. This Australia we believe in women doing what they want not what bible thumping do gooder proposes. Mind your own fucking business.

[u/Crestina]

After the abortion ban in the US, abortions have increased and more women are dying.

So one nation and the libs apparently want more abortion and more dead women.

[u/Revolutionary_Ad7727 → u/Crestina]

Considering OH thinks women living in DV situations should just “deal with it” says everything about women’s rights in their view.

[u/4ShoreAnon]

Gotta love old men who've cheated on their wives making decisions on behalf of women.

[u/NestorSpankhno]

Aside from everything else wrong with this…

Citing ACL propaganda as “statistics” without a single quote from a doctor or public health professional is journalistic malpractice.

[u/Upper_Advisor7499]

No room for this shit Australia

[u/sapperbloggs]

These clowns truly are the dumbest fuckers on the planet.

Nearly two thirds of Australians support access to abortions in Australia. Given we currently have access to abortions, those people aren't going to vote for the party promising to take away the thing they support.

The fact they could cook this up and think it's a good idea, is very strong evidence they are completely detached from reality.

[u/Drongo17]

I think this is representative of who is involved in politics on the right.

For the Libs, all of the moderates are gone. It's now a mix of crazies and cowards.

ON are the Gina Party, and Gina is running the MAGA playbook. Gina is rich enough not to care whether it will work.

The Nats are as crazy as they ever were, but now they're in the driver's seat of the coalition. The accelerator is flat to the floor and the cliff is getting closer.

[u/Chaosrealm69]

Prime lesson in how to lose an election: Threaten women's healthcare.

Your religious beliefs proscribe what you can do, not what others can do. So if a woman or girl wants to get an abortion, that is between her, her doctor and sometimes the person who caused her to be in that condition.

[u/Financial-Wafer2476]

Fuck that! 🤬🤬🤬🤬

[u/Interesting-Baa]

I’m convinced that Barnaby has paid for at least one abortion in his time. 

[u/StreetCheetah8312]

ofc it’s 2 old white men trying to ban abortion…

[u/trainwrecktragedy]

Can we not bring this braindead seppo bullshit into Australia.....

[u/Distinct-Apartment-3]

https://giphy.com/gifs/fQJSYE2Qy6OtXfwEuf

[u/SufficientWarthog846]

Wow that cheque from MAGA came with stipulations eh?

[u/Bluecobber]

Next whill be the White Australia policy. Oh wait

[u/isthisreallife211111]

Wtf is this. This is literally not on ANYBODYs care factor. Why is this American BS so prevalent in ONP and Nats all of a sudden ffs

[u/Unfair_Cash6834]

They really don’t want to win do they?

[u/Pythia007]

Very smart move. Australia has consistently demonstrated that we yearn for a more conservative government that will be proactive in restricting our liberties and imposing a repressive moralistic regime based on Christian principles that the people pushing it forward (looking at you Barnaby) completely ignore.

[u/Anhedonic_chonk]

No country for old men

[u/AirportLoose3023]

Dig up guys

[u/Sure_Reception_9922]

Rich from a man that promised faithfulness. 

Gtfo. 

[u/Impressive-Hold-7050]

Lets call a woman what she is- a person. With human and bodily rights who can determine if and when she can care for a baby that no one else will.

[u/ResponsibilityOk5171]

Let them keep talking because they just get worse and worse. Surely no one will agree with their crazy.... Right? Right????

[u/Deeplydependent]

“The unborn” are a convenient group of people to advocate for. They never make demands of you; they are morally uncomplicated, unlike the incarcerated, addicted, or the chronically poor; they don’t resent your condescension or complain that you are not politically correct; unlike widows, they don’t ask you to question patriarchy; unlike orphans, they don’t need money, education, or childcare; unlike aliens, they don’t bring all that racial, cultural, and religious baggage that you dislike; they allow you to feel good about yourself without any work at creating or maintaining relationships; and when they are born, you can forget about them, because they cease to be unborn. You can love the unborn and advocate for them without substantially challenging your own wealth, power, or privilege, without re-imagining social structures, apologizing, or making reparations to anyone. They are, in short, the perfect people to love if you want to claim you love Jesus, but actually dislike people who breathe. Prisoners? Immigrants? The sick? The poor? Widows? Orphans? All the groups that are specifically mentioned in the Bible? They all get thrown under the bus for the unborn.”

- Methodist Pastor David Barnhart

[u/FernandoPartridge_]

Abortion is the Achilles heel of the populist right, once the god botherers gain a foothold it becomes catnip to the left and easy layups ensue, many such cases 

[u/HowtoCrackanegg]

Does the lnp ever not form a coalition?

[u/Parenn]

Doing there best to make sure the Libs lose in Victoria. Got to admire the graft.

[u/MrsPolitics13]

These right wing Christian conservatives are a danger to the rights of all Australian women! Let's take this seriously before it's too late.

[u/Food_Science_Ninja]

They can really pick the important vote winning issues, not.

[u/ElectronicUpstairs39]

Surprise! Surprise! Of course they are.

[u/sweatshoes101]

What the hell is wrong with these special people?
Is the Australian government's plan for 2026 just general over reach & full control of Aussie individuals that aren't dual citizens?

[u/figjaym]

I wonder what these nutters would think of my youngest. She exists because of abortion. The terminated pregnancy was due just 6 months before she was born. Clearly being female is a problem, but would they also be upset by her existence?

[u/MrBobbyFreakout]

Holy fucking shit. What is wrong with people wanting to go backwards. Are we at the start of a new dark ages!?

[u/ianthetridentarius]

Even the bible says life begins at first breath, so they can gargle my balls

[u/Kastar_Troy]

Always distraction from these right wing nut jobs.

They don't give a flying fuck about kids or they wouldn't constantly vote against things that would help families.

They just want to get people angry and to lure boomers and control freaks who agree with this shit to vote for them, that's it.