Jeremy Rockliff

Premier of Tasmania



8 August 2017

Michael Ferguson, Leader of Government Business in the House of Assembly

Another jump to the Green left by Ms White

The inexperienced Labor leader Bec White continues to show she is hopelessly captured by the Greens, rushing to join the Greens in seeking to ditch the Lord's Prayer from Parliament.*

The Lord's Prayer is an important and meaningful tradition in our Parliament, including for many Tasmanians who don't think of themselves as religious.

Reactionary calls to replace it are nothing more than an attempt to further attack and marginalise those of the Christian faith. 

Unfortunately, it's becoming increasingly apparent that when the anti-Christian Greens say "jump", Ms White says "how high?"

The Lord's Prayer is just the latest issue to add to the list - Ms White has also followed the Greens down the path to the fairies at the bottom of the garden on legalising illicit drugs, opposing free speech, gaming machines, soft sentences for child sex abusers; and everyone knows she wants to roll-over to the Greens on salmon.

Who knows what else you'll get in a Labor-Green minority Government? It's clear that the Greens will be calling the shots just like last time.

*"My personal view is that a modern parliament should be respectful to the traditional owners of the land and that we should be respectful to all religious beliefs" *ABC News 8/8/17



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