Coalition’s Queensland women set to highlight growing policy divide in party
LNP women’s conference will rally support for an anti-abortion bill, urge more action on Brittany Higgins’s allegations and push against quotas
Support for a controversial anti-abortion bill, a push against quotas, reuniting families separated by the pandemic and demands for an investigation into the exploitation of backpackers on working visas are among the resolutions the women of the LNP are fighting for, highlighting the growing divide in the party’s ideologies.
The LNP women’s annual conference will be held in Brisbane next week, where the women of the Queensland branch of the Coalition, set out their wish list for government policy. Covid lockdowns mean it will go ahead without the prime minister, who will be quarantining in Canberra ahead of the next parliamentary sitting. The Guardian has seen the list of resolutions the women will be debating, as they seek to influence the government’s policy direction.
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