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Australian Medical Association vice president Dr Chris Moy has criticised both major parties for beginning “piecemeal, superficial” health policies into the federal election campaign.Moy said there was still time before the May 21 poll for both parties to bolster their offerings, and the AMA was calling on Labor and the Coalition to show who is a “true friend of Medicare”.

Moy said false claims made by Liberal Warringah candidate Katherine Deves about transgender people were “terrible” things to say.“They’re suffering in silence because of inappropriate comments by this individual.”Mike Foley Independent Warringah MP Zali Steggall has taken aim at the Liberal party over the candidate preselected to challenge her in the upcoming federal election, accusing Prime Minister Scott Morrison of weaponising trans issues.

Katherine Deves was selected as the Warringah candidate by a committee of three – Morrison, NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet and former party president Chris McDiven – on the eve of the election being called, amid a legal fight with the NSW branch over preselections.Deves runs a lobby group, Save Women’s Sport, which opposes the inclusion of trans women in women’s sport. She has falsely claimed that “half of all males with trans identities are sex offenders”.

Steggall, a former Winter Olympian, said inclusion of trans people in sport was a “non-issue” and sporting bodies

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