Canavan defends Upper Hunter coal industry against anti-coal poll outcome skynews.com.au - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from skynews.com.au Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Nationals Senator Matt Canavan says he is “deeply troubled” by the underlying philosophy of the Respect@Work report even though he supports the recommendations adopted by the Morrison government.
“I think we’ve got to really bat back against this idea that’s taken over modern life that what is most important is your feelings, you’re the centre of the universe, everybody is their own little sun and everyone else revolves around,” he told Sky News.
“It’s an extremely dangerous philosophy because it’s clearly incompatible with a peaceful and tolerant society. If we are all little kings how can we all get along?”
“The actual philosophy here that somehow the reason we have harassment or violence in our society is because of gender inequality … it has very little evidence.”
Mr Canavan said the available evidence seem to point in the “opposite direction” and shows movement towards greater gender equality has occurred alongside an increasing number of harass
Nationals Senator Matt Canavan has urged the federal government to “let the sunlight in” and let the vaccine figures out to the public.
“What we need is transparency,” he told Sky News.
Matt Canavan: ‘Lockdowns don’t seem critical in stopping virus spread’06/04/2021|5min
Nationals Senator Matt Canavan says lockdowns do not seem to play a “critical” role in stopping the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.
At least four lockdowns have been introduced in states across the country since Christmas in the wake of small outbreaks.
Mr Canavan told Sky News, “We only had a three-day lockdown in the last few weeks in Brisbane while infected people had been around for weeks but we hadn’t had a significant spread.
“I just don’t think we should be bearing the cost of billions of dollars of lockdowns for what doesn’t seem to be a big payoff in terms of lack of spread,” he said.
Short pause of AstraZeneca wouldn t have made a difference skynews.com.au - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from skynews.com.au Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.