Parliamentary Secretary to Prime Minister & Cabinet.
Scroll down for quotes on the following topics ... Christianity ... Abortion ... plus articles on: John Howard ... Bennelong ... Women & Equality ...
MAXINE McKew & CHRISTIANITY :
Labor MPs refuse to be sworn in holding Bibles
13/2 Matthew Franklin for The Australian |... the winds of change were freshening as a majority of Labor MPs refused to be sworn in holding Bibles, instead exercising their option to offer an affirmation of allegiance. Of the Labor frontbench, only Mr Rudd, Simon Crean, Martin Ferguson and Peter Garrett took the Bible in hand as they declared their allegiance to Queen Elizabeth II and her heirs and successors.
In marked contrast, all members of the God-fearing Coalition front bench swore on the Bible, many supplying their own for the occasion.
NOTE : EMILY's List is a national organisation that aims to make ensure "Progressive" Labor Women are elected to parliament ... Apparently progressive means "pro-abortion and pro-institutional child care" because the Emily's List website clearly states that to join this political & personal support network, women need to be : Pro-Choice / Pro Equity / Pro-Childcare / Pro-Equal Pay & Pro-Diversity
Since 1996 EMILY's List has helped elect over 80 women to Federal, State or Territory Parliaments.
Tanya Plibersek is listed on the Emily's List website as one they have helped get into the Federal Parliament
Friday Forum - Reporter: Maxine McKew - TV PROGRAM TRANSCRIPT
- Broadcast: 12/11/2004
MAXINE MCKEW: Let's look at something else the PM is doing at the moment.
He is allowing certainly the beginnings of a debate on abortion to run, not particularly indicating a preference, but he is allowing the issue to run.
What is this all about, Malcolm?
MALCOLM TURNBULL: Well, it is a free society.
It is an issue that people have strong views about, and a wide variety of views.
It is not a simplistic pro-life versus pro-choice.
There is a range of opinions and...
MAXINE MCKEW: Is it worth re-examining the laws that relate particularly to, say, late-term terminations?
MALCOLM TURNBULL: Well, of course, it is.
If people are concerned about it and want to debate it, as the Prime Minister says, they have ever right to do so.
MAXINE MCKEW: Is it worth a private members Bill?
MALCOLM TURNBULL: Well, it's certainly open to that.
If members want to move a private members Bill, they can.
You have to remember, as Peter Costello said - observed - that the laws relating to abortion are basically state laws, state and territory laws.
The Federal Parliament has a limited ability to legislate that area.
MAXINE MCKEW: For instance, what you could anticipate, though, as a private members Bill which would suggest that Medicare funding not be allowed for late-term terminations.
Would you support something of that order?
MALCOLM TURNBULL: Well, I would want to look at it very carefully.
I think everyone who reflects on the issue would have very serious concern about abortions of...terminations of pregnancies in the third trimester or even in the mid trimester.
MAXINE MCKEW: But numerically they're not significant.
MALCOLM TURNBULL: No, well, that's right.
MAXINE MCKEW: That's what we're hearing, in fact, from the AMA and various other people.
So why look at it?
MALCOLM TURNBULL: That's a very good argument and I've seen conflicting information as to whether there is Medicare, as to how much Medicare funding there is for late-term abortions at all.
So, I think there is a shortage of facts on the issue.
I would like to see more facts.
I would also like to see more women's voices on this issue.
SPECIAL NOTE ON THE TYPES OF INDUCED ABORTION AVAILABLE:
In the first week there are micro-abortions caused by "contraceptive" drugs and devices. After implantation there are those induced by drugs such as RU 486, Methotrexate and prostaglandins. In the first trimester there are surgical abortions like suction and D&C. In the second and third trimesters there are instillation types, D&E, intracardiac injections and partial birth abortions (late term abortions).
Remember ALL Abortions will be LEGAL under this legislation
Partial Birth Abortion, also called "brain suction" or "D&X" methods, is particularly horrendous - This procedure can be performed on unborn babies anywhere from 13 to 32 weeks old..
- 80% of babies are normal & most babies are viable.
This is like a breech delivery. The entire infant is delivered except the head. A scissors is jammed into the base of the skull. A tube is inserted into the skull, and the brain is sucked out. The now-dead infant is pulled out. The drawing. illustrate this
NOTE - An 8 year Senate battle in the USA finally banned Partial Birth abortion in February 2007. 4 out of 5 Judges declared this procedure to be nothing less than Infanticide.
QUOTE: "There are no medical circumstances in which a partial-birth abortion is the only safe alternative. We take care of pregnant women who are very sick, and babies who are very sick, and we never perform partial-birth abortions. . . . There are plenty of alternatives. . . . This is clearly a procedure no obstetrician needs to do." F. Boehm, Dr. OB, Vanderbilt U. Med. The Washington Times, May 6, 1966, p. A1
Pregnancy Reductions will also become legal under this legislation ..... & intracardiac injections ... Since the advent of fertility drugs, multi-fetal pregnancies have become common. "The frequency of triplet and higher pregnancies . . . has increased 200% since the early 1970s."
QUOTE: Since these are usually born prematurely and some have other problems, a new method has been developed. Assisted Repro. Techniques . . . , L. Wilcox, Fertl. & Sterility, vol. 65, #2, Feb. ’96, pg. 361
At about 4 months a needle is inserted through the mother’s abdomen, into the chest and heart of one of the fetal babies and a poison injected to kill him or her. This is "pregnancy reduction." It is done to reduce the number or to kill a handicapped baby, if such is identified. If successful, the dead baby’s body is absorbed.
Sometimes, however, this method results in the loss of all of the babies.
See Left side Links for Labor's history of conscience voting on Abortion and current policies.
Articles 2007 : (within the Link-Zone pages & excerpts from external site articles)
Women & Equality
McKew hits out at wage disparity - Alison Rehn, February 2008
In delivering her maiden speech to Parliament yesterday, the first maiden speech delivered on behalf of the seat of Bennelong for 34 years, Ms McKew reflected on trailblazing women who fought to correct "this historic injustice"...
"Women's work force participation now stands at 58 per cent and the educational achievements of women have never been higher. "Yet whether you are behind the counter of a cafeteria or in the executive suite, if you are female, wage parity is not guaranteed." Ms McKew said Australia remained one of the few developed countries to have no national maternity leave system and negotiating flexibility in the workplace was still difficult for mothers. .. Ms McKew, who has put her decades of experience as a broadcaster behind her to get involved in politics, said she came to Canberra "to make a difference".
McKew hits out at wage disparity - Alison Rehn, February 2008
"... Paying tribute to her mother Mary and her partner and former ALP national secretary Bob Hogg, she also reflected warmly on her adversary during the election campaign, John Howard.
"I'd like to pay tribute to the work and extraordinary commitment to public life of the previous member for Bennelong, John Howard," she said.
"His service to the community and representation in federal Parliament for 33 years is a great record and a fine achievement. He was a hardy warrior for his beliefs and that should be acknowledged."
Saint Maxine Loses Courtesy - Andrew Bolt, December 2007
McKew, the former ABC TV host, became an instant Labor darling by beating prime minister John Howard in his own seat of Bennelong... "I think Paul Keating got it right, you know, this election has wiped away the toxicity," she declared.
Earth to McKew: You make a liar of yourself. Calling your defeated opponent toxic, brutish and a horrible absolutist is hardly proof that this election has wiped away the toxicity. Rather the reverse.
Indeed, I've never heard Howard use such ungracious language against a defeated opponent, whether Kim Beazley (whom he liked) or even Mark Latham (whom he privately despised as a boor).
Bennelong
Monday , February 26, 2007 - "Woolly Days" Blog - Derek Barry, Journalist, QLD, Australia
The fight for John Howard’s marginal Sydney seat of Bennelong took a new twist with the overnight announcement of ex-ABC journalist Maxine McKew as Labor’s candidate in the next election ... The 53 year old McKew is a former ABC journalist who joined the Labor Party earlier this month as an advisor to opposition leader Kevin Rudd. She left the ABC after a distinguished 30 year career in October last year. McKew won a Walkley award in 1998 in the category of broadcast journalist interviews for her work on the ABC program Lateline. McKew is married to Bob Hogg, the former national secretary of the ALP.
...According to former Labor leader Mark Latham, McKew could have been a Labor MP six years ago. Then MP Julia Irwin held the safe seat of Fowler in NSW. Labor heavyweights planned to move Irwin to the upper house and offer the seat to McKew in the 2001 election. According to Latham, Labor’s then NSW assistant general secretary, Mark Arbib told him “[McKew] backed out, said she couldn’t stand living in Cabramatta or Liverpool”. Wealthier inner-west Bennelong may be more her liking.
Even if McKew loses, there is a strong probability Bennelong will offer up a second chance by-election sometime in the next 18 months when Howard finally calls it a day. However a McKew victory first time up is very plausible. The Morgan poll of 21 February has the Liberal number crunchers worried.
Link-Zone does not necessarily endorse the views held by contributors, or by authors of linked websites.
This material is provided for your information to assist you in forming your own opinion. It is Link-Zone's hope that you are able to find quality resources that will help you in your research of current issues.
