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.

  • MHLoppy
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    34 days ago

    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:

    • [for] Increasing access to subsidised childcare
    • [for] Increasing housing affordability
    • [for] Ending immigration detention on Nauru
    • [for] Reducing tax on lowest income bracket
    • [for] The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
    • [against] Reducing tax concessions for high socio-economic status

    She then does have the stuff that Frog alluded to:

    • [against] Criminalising wage theft
    • [against] Improving pay and conditions for gig workers
    • [mixed] Increasing workplace protections
    • [mixed] Increasing workplace protections for women

    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      14 days ago

      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.