Ms Ryan said that she planned to introduce another private member’s bill during the upcoming term of federal parliament, after an initial bill in 2018 failed to pass.
Ms Ryan said that she planned to introduce another private member’s bill during the upcoming term of federal parliament, after an initial bill in 2018 failed to pass.
If the majority of her voting positions* don’t align with “big L liberals” then it seems an inaccurate way to classify her, even if she’s not voting progressively on some key things like workers rights etc. Social and environmental issues (which is a significantly expanded scope compared to the previously stated subsets of just [climate change + queer people existing]!) covers a lot of important policy areas.
Given that her voting record seems to be unambiguously and substantially more progressive than any of the LNP members I glanced at, it would be more accurate to describe her record as broadly-progressive-except-in-X.
* relying on this source - I don’t know whether this generalizes accurately to her actual voting or not, but I’m assuming it’s at least decently accurate
Considering Frog’s first comment did specify “big L Liberal who just happens to believe in climate change and that queer people exist”, I think it would be fair to redo the analysis excluding environment and LGBT+–related votes. Having not done that analysis myself, I’m not going to comment on how the result would change if you did it.
Her voting record (again with the disclaimer that we’re relying on this one source for that information) is thankfully on the short side. If excluding anything that’s only “believe in climate change and that queer people exist” (and not the much larger “social and environmental issues” scope), the majority still looks overall progressive to me.
Very non-exhaustive examples:
She then does have the stuff that Frog alluded to:
But even mixed-tending-against can be a sliver more progressive than status quo in a policy area, since status quo typically means voting against all changes.
This is fair and reasoned criticism of my somewhat uncareful expression. And I apologise for being a rage merchant on the internet.
She’s better in many ways than the Liberals.
But I’m still going to call her a fuckwit on something as black and white as making wage theft criminal.
There’s just no justification for that. Unless your worldview is fundamentally inequitable, where you believe some people are more deserving than others.
Which is why I can never see her as anything other than right-wing, despite all her decent positions as you point out.