Liberal MP Tim Smith is demanding Bettina Arndt be stripped of the Order of Australia medal she was awarded in January, over comments that are "totally at odds with the values of the Australian people, the Crown and the Australian Government".
"The Council of the Order of Australia has an important role protecting the Vice-Regal office and the Crown in Australia from associating itself with views that seek to make excuses for extreme violence," Mr Smith said. "Over recent years the Order of Australia in the Military Division and many Gallantry Decorations have been awarded to countless brave Australian servicemen and women for their efforts in bringing peace to Afghanistan, Iraq and Northern Syria whilst fighting regimes that excuse and perpetuate horrendous violence, often against women.On Saturday afternoon, Ms Arndt defended her comments.
"Upon further reflection I think these comments are so grotesque that this woman must not be awarded an AM, which was announced on Australia Day. I hate saying that, but she must not be recognised in any way as an outstanding Australian."
Congratulations to all who were central in the Police Officer being taken off this case. I would have thought that we wanted our law to have an open mind until the facts were put forward , or are we now turning our law into a Kangaroo Court .
Name the Callers...
Lol you mean the Kill All Men death cult and their soy beards are still triggered by a woman with an opinion?
Seriously out of touch with reality and irrelevant. Is the really the std expected of an OA recipient? Should be a short convo. A mistake is easy to plead for forgiveness, doing nothing gives life to an issue of nat int & simultaneously d'grades an award of distinction
Who is calling for thebettinaarndt to be stripped of her honour? No one has asked me, or l suspect the sensible majority of Australians. auspol
That's a bullshit call.
I do not agree it was and is deserved
Because she commended a police officer doing his duty and investigating properly rather than pre-determing outcomes... Why do you give oxygen to these minority outrage morons? It's pathetic
What disgusting, vial & disgraceful commentary from someone who’s been formally recognised. Violence against children must be punished but to suggest a lady who was stalked, her life threatened, in any way contributed to this tragedy is disgraceful. Should lose ALL recognition!
Considering how often the left gets called snowflakes, there sure are a lot of bleating 'right' in these comments.
on its way to 50k
Only amongst socialist trash. They hate decency so I'm not surprised.
Anyone who misrepresents their academic qualifications, or allows others to do so, isn’t an expert, they’re a fraudster. But as this government are a bunch of lying, rorting cheats, they’re happy to see one of their own get an AO. BettinaAintQualified
'Exclusive: Calls grow for Bettina Arndt to be stripped of Order of Australia' Exclusive?
criprights Should bettinaarndt be stripped of her Order if Australia 🇦🇺 HannahClarke HannahBaxter
The intolerant left's cancel-culture will be tested on his one. Let's hope that common sense prevails & the left are forced to re-think their spiteful approach to most things.
Just wonder how she will feel if this happens to her family.
What about just stripped
Normally I agree with Bettina’s thinking. The policemen was just doing his job and commenting to reporters, he is only human. Personally I believe Bettina should have not commented, this was a case of premeditated murder.
Anyone with even the smallest grasp of reality should be thanking her.
She is right and her award should be upgraded not stripped! Men hating, esp. white men hating neomarxist ideology caused this!
AlexDevantier Even lying by omission about one’s qualifications is sufficient cause, let alone the unceasing attempts to legitimise criminal behaviour by men against women. Begone, Bettina!
When a man “is driven too far” he kills when a woman is driven too far she try’s to leave.... how many women and children have died AFTER they escaped. STOP blaming victims for being killed, by inference or directly. No lie is worse than the one where she brought it on herself.
She makes me 🤢🤢🤮🤮
Wow, two people now?
God Bless Bettina Arndt! The Order of Australia, for Bettina, Stays! What would be good, is if all MSM in Australia, was sold off, and never allowed to broadcast/put out information again. MSM is irrelevant. We are the news now!
Just outstandingly poor judgement to give her an OOA. Revoking it is the obvious thing to do.
Calls by the usual professional outraged left brigade. I remember when sydney morning herald meant journalists. Not leftist pathetic apologists who never grew up after running for the socialist party at art school at uni.
This woman does not deserve accolades for victim blaming. It is unAustralian, immoral and divisive.
Calls from the flogs of the left No Doubt!
From the far-left extremists no doubt.
There have been calls for the SMH to be thrown in prison for constant lies and traitor propaganda... 🙄 'Called for,' 'has been accused of,' and any such headlines should be banned as public lies. Gutter journalism at very best.
Why was it even given to her in the first place?🤦🏻♀️This govt makes a lot of decisions that only favours the guilty & the corrupt. They never ever do their duty to the public. No care, no empathy - just plain business to make money for their kind. That's Australia now.😔🇦🇺AusPol
Stupid woman.
Calls from lefty, attention-seeking members of the Society of the perpetually outraged. Meanwhile, in the real world, the vast majority couldn’t give a rats arse about morons bickering and are looking for answers
Why because she believes men have a right in this s world as well?
after being stripped does she then walk through the town while people chant 'shame' I'd watch that
No excuse for murdering innocent children no matter how “far someone was pushed”
It must happen to show that Australians can rise up against the autocracy to say “we’ve had enough”. It’s happening across the nation because women are sick of being the play things & punching bags of violent, controlling men. We don’t tolerate likes of Bettina letting us down.
“We’re the left side, we’re the left since, we’re the left side over here” - barmy army 1995.
Why on earth awarded in the first place?! I can’t figure out.
Hero
Since she is illegally calling herself a Psychologist & Clinical Psychologist, let alone the fkd up crap she's tweeted over the last 4 weeks, she should most definitely have her Order of Australia revoked.
Unfortunately it won’t happen... this would mean somewhere up there they actually listen to public opinion
Let’s see some transparency on the selection process
Woke calls from gender anxious looney Left!
Overall she’s been very good. She has stuffed up rather badly here defending a mass murderer. It could go either way now for Bettina.
MissDissentEats Bettina Arndt's vile commentary has brought disrepute to the Order of Australia. The Governer-General must cancel her Order of Australia under Section 4(4) of the Terminations and Cancellations Ordinance. auspol
I’d like to know who nominated her for an honour, who provided the support references, and who approved it.
KaushalyaFem she’s a nasty and tacky attention-seeker who can’t believe her luck
She is behaving badly. Wish she would stop and think about what she is doing to all those affected by male abuse especially the Qld family and friends. No empathy or morality.
Revenge of the sisterhood! Stick with the narrative or be burned at the stake!
Why? Because she isn’t woke ?
So no Bettina Arndt arena then ?
This is just stupid journalism. She won’t be stripped and you should stop going on about it and grow the fark up.
No. No and no. Move on people.
The Order of Australia.....really? In this day and age?
Cops get sick of attending the same addresses for domestic violence when the woman wont make a formal complaint and stays with the offender time and time again.
thebettinaarndt doesn't really help the Non-white males at all but at least she gives white males a vent outlet Akarnious SenseDispensary CelebratingAus ozcrimenews And good to see her trolling the FauxLefties
No.
Normal people can be driven to 'temporary insanity' due to divorce & fact is there is NO HELP to alleviate it quickly. GPs refuse to give Valium, psychotherapists take 3 months & Lifeline a waste of time. Valium been a better option than this auspol
Another Australian disgrace On average, one woman a week is murdered by her current or former partner. 1 in 3 Australian women have experienced physical violence since the age of 15. 1 in 6 Australian women has experienced physical or sexual violence by current or former partner
A calvalcade of broken lefties.
Obviously this newspaper is a neo-fem rag with neo-fem supporters. Balance (and counterbalance) is so badly needed. Most of these responses are nonsense. The policeman in QLD who was stood aside for not being sufficiently misandrist, was simply asking the public 2 b reasonable.
It's hardly an exclusive...there have been thousands saying the same thing here
There’s a petition going around
rogerwilkinson3 And we'll keep at it until it happens. And blockbettina
She has it completely correct, that is why they squeal so loudly.
Then hung drawn and quartered
And those who awarded her!
Bettina is
Yes!
Yeah ok. Where do I sign?
fordtippex the calls were loud enough before they gave her the damn thing..
Why would MP's like Tim cast such serious aspersions on Bettina's efforts? Here's some possible reasons BeBetter
She needs to be stripped! She’s a nasty, poisonous woman! How’d she get it in the first place? Next Pauline Hanson will receive one for contributions to race relations.
'Calls grow' It's a cacophony of screaming. So demeaning to years of other recipients. Her investiture completely debases the award. auspol mkr MarriedAtFirstSight .abcnews
This woman is a gas lighter. She is absolutely disgusting. She's not for men's rights...she just hates women
An appalling woman. Shame on her and shame on those who nominated her.
Yes Tim she should have her award taken from her simply because she disagrees with you. Obviously all you opinions and attitudes are beyond reproac, nd therefore anyone who does not conform to your way of thinking deserves to be shot.
Just exactly why the fuck was this awful previously unheard of woman offered it in the first place? Because liberals...
Grow 🤔 If I or someone else said that we'd lose our jobs, never to work at woolies etc again, she may lose an award
Victoria is the new North Korea. They are intolerant & Stalinist underneath. A disgrace. The courts too. Pell may be a pedophile but his trial & review by 3 judges a disgrace. All this safe schools stuff! Bettina gives facts & reason - her detractors=ideologues shouting slogans.
“Exclusive”? This has been happening since the moment she got it.
Meanwhile, George Pell still has his AC...
Utter rot. Since when have ideological differences been a reason to remove and Honour?
Qldaah Please lets hope this happens! Arndt is just a sensation seeking psychopath.
Yes. Her actions demand it.
Her comment on the horrific death of Hanna and her children was appalling. She's committed Fraud with her fake degree and supports rapists and paedophiles.
The Tail is constantly on the lookout for a Dog to wag.
Keen to know who nominated and endorsed her for the award...fascinated to know how they positioned her contribution to society to warrant being awarded this honour.
ja_dut I would 100% support this. And if ScottMorrisonMP took action, he’d have my respect. But, I know we live in a world where it suits some to let puppets like Arndt do their bidding, dividing the populace so any real action on important social issues goes by the wayside.
Exclusive to The SMH: Information allegedly already in the public domain. What is this crap?
I can only hear a few lefties ..screaming ...there are no calls from the 'We the People'
Calls? From who? Same voices that were bitching and moaning the first time around. Same voices that are always whining and complaining about anyone who doesn't reside in their toxic echo chamber. thebettinaarndt is perfectly entitled to her views. auspol
If she’s stripped of hers then you are going to have to make a list of others who deserve to be stripped of theirs and most from the left.
She is a fraudster who conned the public into thinking she is more than who she is. Not to mention Despicable
colonelhogans It’s a wonder CrimeMinisterMorrison hasn’t given her a vacant senate seat.
LOL “calls grow”
The lefty flog mafia strike again.
She should of never been given one.
'Calls'.... From the wack leftists with a byline.
Y E P
Counteropinion: Honours from a corrupt state are entirely meaningless
Good. Do it
Who cares, it's a meaningless award, the important thing is that everyone has a platform to voice opinion
Stop giving this lady so much free publicity. If you don’t like what she says ignore her. Like Bolt and co she will be restricted to her diehard follower and the rest of the population won’t even realise they exist. The publicity encourages the contentious comments.
Go Bettina,you’ve got credibility and have had for a long time
If anyone should lose her award it's rosiebatty , for her contribution to feminism's dishonest & divisive impact on society, which thebettinaarndt has been bravely challenging:
Bettina thoroughly deserves her award for standing up to feminist lies like the fake campus rape culture campaign!
She brings balance to the discussion.
KetanJ0 BlockBettina
KetanJ0 This needs to happen...
Calls from whom? Let's see a few names please.
Since when has common knowledge become exclusive
We all need to write to the Governor General about this
I have rarely encountered someone who offends my sense of what is decent and proper more than this woman.
She does indeed. Most poisonous, narcissistic viper whose words cause damage.
Abbott's Prince Phillip call wasn't so bad after all..
So much hatred towards a woman you don't like the words of. Perhaps you are the perpetrator or can reflect on, man go crazy?
KetanJ0 'Demand' is not the word I'd use to describe Tim's request.
If this is what the current government think passes for a feminist. Then Margaret Atwood should now be known as 'The Oracle'.
she's wicked and good mates of Scotty - perfect fit really.
It’s unbelievable this woman got it in the first place? Who nominated her?
Absolutely
For supporting Australian men and a distinguished Policeman doing his job professionally. 🙄
Arndt won't lose her gong. Morrison and co like having her there, fighting the culture wars on their behalf. No one they care about is calling for her gong to be stripped.
Thought crimes must be punished
KetanJ0 Not actually an exclusive.
Absolutely. Not only are her past comments deplorable but her most recent are sickening beyond belief.
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