Canberra politician uses Christchurch shootings to argue against child sex abuse reform

A Canberra politician has invoked the Christchurch shootings, in which 50 people were killed, to argue against a bill reforming child sex abuse laws.MLA Giulia Jones invoked Christchurch attacks to oppose billOn Tuesday afternoon Liberal MLA Giulia Jones said the bill — which would make it mandatory for Catholic priests to report child abuse disclosed in confession — was targeting people of faith.

Mrs Jones said the ACT Government's move to implement the recommendation of the royal commission into child sexual abuse was alienating.

And the CanberraLibs wonder why they’re the perennial opposition in the ACT

This woman needs to go😡

This is appalling. Churches that enable the sexual abuse of children and don't act to stop it should be fully liable; but better to prevent it as early as possible through full disclosure laws.

this law wont work anyway - people do not know the difference between 'reasonable belief' and 'suspicion'...go and ask them. 2 years jail if they don't report it and 1 year jail if they report it and are wrong....good one

My God, I don't know who she is but I hope she goes and crawls back into the hole she came out OFF!

She has to be considered to have radical views isn't that clear in this story these LNP MPs grow scarier by the day BIG concern I would think 'to be out of step with party(that's debatable) and the community '🤥🤥

Gulia needs to explain why a priest should be held to a different standard than the rest of the population. A teacher or a doctor is required to report if they suspect abuse, but priests shouldn’t have to report when someone has actually confessed? Absolute stupidity.

Peter_Fox59 I note the letters LNP . Where is the O for opportunists , No matter what . Like the MOST SENIOR politician we have and his By Hook or Crook. The man with his then overlord FoAbbott indulged in criminal smuggling of Rfgs back to where they could well have been the infamous 1200.

I assume that the next time she opens her mouth it will be to change feet...

, you mean a LIBERAL politician is arguing against reforms which aim to protect children against attacks by priests?

Wow. Just...wow. Are these seriously the people that represent our country? We done fucked up Australia.

Everybody, devotees, guardians, victims, & supporters, ALL want priests to tell police about suspected paedophiles. If not, then the state should force them into compliance regimes.

WTF?

All persons in the medical field Dr. Nurse etc.. have MANDATORY REPORTING... religious persons should do the same. Sorry but in light of their grubby behaviour they cannot be excluded or trusted. Secrets screw you up... open disclosure is best practice.

“On Tuesday afternoon Liberal MLA Giulia Jones said the bill — which would make it mandatory for Catholic priests to report child abuse disclosed in confession — was targeting people of faith.” So let’s continue to expose kids to abusive people of faith? WTF

The attorney general .Gordon_R_Ramsay himself is disgraceful. Some of the things happening in the ACT government is shocking!

The term Canberra politician becomes a code word for Fool.

'Liberal politician' is the correct headline.

MSMWatchdog2013 Correct5ion, ABC: LIBERAL politician uses.......etc

I’m not sure I understand. Is she afraid that admitting child abuse does occur within the Catholic community puts them at even greater risk of violence because child abuse is fundamentally at odds with the beliefs of anti Christian hate groups?

Who the hell is that dunce? Never heard of her..im done to. What a crap day. Must be full moon

The layers of ignorance and perversion in that non argument are astounding.

Sickening and typical of a Liberal politician

How f🤬🤬🤬ed up are these Liberal's...

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So LNPscum Giulia Jones is trying to argue that priests shouldn't have to report child sex abuse because this picks on religious groups? Her idiotic statement appears to indicate that she thinks that it is ok for religious people to have sex with children! VoteLNPscumOut

Everytime I think I’ll never hear a politician say anything stupider one like this comes along and proves I will.

Another one to get rid of

ACT Liberal MLA uses... - Very 'Balanced' headline abc... ACT Libs have some pretty good form. Zed, Gulia, Coe...

Why do you give such ignorant ideas oxygen? Are you with child abuse survivors or with those who seek to protect the abusers?

Keep whipping up the hate and division ..

What a poor piece of thinking

GiuliaJonesMLA you're protecting child abusers

How about forbidding islamic child marriage? Isn't that pedophilia?

PCKJ3627 ScottMorrisonMP seriously? Wtf! Just when you think the Libs can’t go lower. Bring on this election already - can’t wait to see the back of you

One more thing ... vote Liberals out.

ScoMo is giving $55m to protect...

She supports sexually abusing children. COOL.

Wait, what

AnthonyCole68 WTAF is wrong with this woman? What an utter shitcunt

auspol GiuliaJonesMLA How does making Catholic Church abide by law, everyone else has 2 follow 'target' the church? Teachers, Police, Play group organisers etc, all have 2 abide by law this regard. Is appalling organisation has most cases child abuse can think they are exempt!

It’s been too long, a whole 15 minutes, since a white person could paint themselves the victim.

FFS how do these crack pots get elected?

WTF!!!

What does she say about pedophile Catholic Priests targeting people of faith?

FFS auspol

Canberra LIBERAL politician. She’s a Liberal. A member of the Liberal Party. Not a generic politician, a Liberal politician. “Liberal politician uses Christchurch shootings to argue without any basis in logic or reason against child sex abuse reform” should be the headline.

Talk about desperate? Totally unrelated matters!

It is depressing to see how politicised and fractured the response to the Christchurch shootings has been in Australia.

And they wonder why the LNP have been in opposition in the ACT since 2001...

Aaaaagh

'These people' have unplumbable depths of intellectual dishonesty.

WHAT? I mean, what? Clearly she only heard (was it Morrison? ) say this was part of religious freedom and just decided to pile on. Awful taking advantage of a tragedy. Shame.

Unbelievable 😐

I have no words

Right she has had her 5 minutes of fame and like those who seek to shock us with outlandish and stupid statements we should ignore and give no recognition to them.

These COALition politicians are not only nasty but cannot have a logical debate. auspol

Another pedo ?

It’s targeting people who abuse children, is stupid fracking twit GiuliaJonesMLA fuckinghell

PatsKarvelas What is the likelihood that legally compelling the Catholic Church to disclose abuse by parishioners is going to work any better than it did for clergy? Also, the bandwagoning is disgraceful - how do these people get elected?

Serious..what a stupid bloody woman.

Failure to engage brain before speaking. Unfortunate.

PatsKarvelas One should very much like to say that one is surprised... One is not! 😳

Sorry, what?

PatsKarvelas And you gave her the platform to do so... CSA...

How despicable can the LNP be? Why in a progressive place like Canberra does the LiberalAus still put up some of the most right-wing crazies like Giulia Jones & ZedSeselja? AusPol

Because people of faith should be allowed to get away with covering child sexual abuse? She seems nice.

LNP, just don't get it.

She is utterly wrong and deplorable!

& they want more women like this in the Liberal Party? Why? Scomo has more problems from Loose-Cannon Candidates like her than anything Shorten & his Cronies can muster!

Also targeting paedophiles.

WTF.. ScottMorrisonMP do you agree with this Asking for the 90% of Australians who are demanding the cloak of secrecy in Church me lifted.

Canberra Libs are hoping to take the overall party’s top spot in the rank stupidity contest

So let's get this straight LiberalAus 1st condoned and supported a convicted child sex offender, they are now using a terrorist act to pitch agenda, and also as a platform to protect further child sex offenders? What's next?

Fkn hell.... Every. single. day. Is it something they're ingesting somehow like ergotamine poisoning,?

What a disgusting, disrespectful and insulting comment to make!

WTF?!

It never gets better

well everyone else is exploiting it to full effect. you guys are busy running a 'He who shall not be named' +campaign favor of a Chinese style sesemi credits system. pretty much every other political partys using it majors to cut down on minors coverage minors for coverage ext

What a stupid so & so!

Terrible human being.

So much for not politicising

I once had the chance to compare G Jones to the pair of short planks I happened to be carrying. A perfect match in terms of thickness.

Bad even, good timing.

They just can't help themselves, can they?

Snarkathon Hope Dutton is going to tell her off for using ChristchurchTerrorAttack for political point-scoring.

The unbelievable fuckery of the religious right.

Where on earth do the LNP find these people?

PeterPyke OMFG! These people are seriously deranged.

There’s a concerted effort by the ACT government to demonise religion. First replace school chaplains with mental health ‘experts’, now this. What a pathetic piece of work this pork barreling parasite is.

How in god's name does she make that link

Wtf is wrong with these LNP politicians!!

What a slime!

It’s truly astonishing how obtuse, how completely disconnected from reality these people can be.

As a man of faith myself - I cannot believe for a second that she has allowed these words to pass through any filter of conscious thinking or intellect - not even for a second.

Gordon_R_Ramsay hear hear Attorney-General Gordon Ramsay!!! 'Nobody is above the laws of our nation, no politician, no religious institution.'

NoAdaniOz Is there an emoji for brainless?

Whoa, a very very long bow drawn there... Do they have any sense how ludicrous and self-serving that proposition is?

Stopping priests rooting kids is not alienation

Targeting people of faith? It’s only making them follow the laws the rest of us follow.

Are we surprised?

WHY don't they get it? What the hell is wrong with our politicians... They're utterly, utterly useless.

Doesn't even make sense, apart from being loathsome.

Another LNP 🤡 showing exceedingly poor judgement.

Ummm, wtf No.

That woman is evil.

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