Mr Guy led the Coalition to defeat at the 2018 state election after it spent years promising a tougher approach on youth crime and campaigning against sexuality and gender programs in schools.
“If they were going to change it, we’re open to the conversation.” “We would expect there’s no change and they would hold to the undertaking,” he said. Australian Medical Association Victorian branch president Roderick McRae said he had not had a conversation with the opposition on the topic since Mr Guy became leader. The opposition’s policy shift on gay conversion has not as yet been communicated to any stakeholders. “The bigger issue at play is a month or so in, there’s trouble in Matthew Guy’s paradise: he canned the WhatsApp group for MPs, canned the question time meetings, and now he’s got a newly appointed shadow minister freestyling without authority.” However, after The Age reported the Coalition’s promise to introduce those amendments, Mr Newbury said they would not look to make any changes to the law.Īt one point in Tuesday’s heated meeting, hard-right Liberal backbencher Bernie Finn said the opposition should not shift from its commitment to community groups to amend the laws. Under former leader Michael O’Brien, the opposition promised many of these groups that if it won next year’s election it would move amendments to the bill to give parents the right to speak with their children about gender and sexuality issues and protect the work of psychiatrists engaged in evidence-based practice to support the mental health of gay and gender-diverse people. The Coalition supports the prohibition on gay conversion therapy but shared the concerns of the Australian Medical Association and some faith, psychiatrist, legal and parental groups that the legislation went beyond simply banning harmful practices and that sanctions were too severe.
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