WA Liberal Senator makes her name as "racist rumour troll"

WA Liberal Senator makes her name as "racist rumour troll" in Senate Estimates

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Wednesday February 23, 2011 7:30am WST
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"The thus far largely unknown WA Liberal Senator Michaelia Cash is another Liberal that ought to be publicly condemned and unambiguously slammed by Liberal leader Tony Abbott after her deeply offensive line of questioning of DIAC Secretary Andrew Metcalfe during Senate Estimates on Monday evening, where she, armed with "spam email facts" acted as a "rumour troll", as it's called in online circles, attempting to bait Mr Metcalfe over p-rnography, gay s-x and child p-rn," WA Human Rights group Project SafeCom said this morning.

Senator Cash's comments - who could well be nicknamed as "Cash for Condoms" after her rather disgusting attempts to question Mr Metcalfe - were only reported by online media outlet Crikey yesterday (transcript below). Her questions were reportedly solely based on the contents of a spam email similar to emails alleging asylum seekers receive more benefits than pensioners.

"Senator Cash, a qualified and experienced lawyer, has deeply disgraced herself in Senate Estimates asking whether detained asylum seekers are accessing child p-rnography on the internet, and she has taken to join the base levels of shock jocks like Alan Jones in a deplorable attempt at race baiting, and the Liberal party should condemn her attitude" Project SafeCom said.

"Thus far we've seen Liberal leader Tony Abbott merely pay lipservice to the national outrage over comments over the cost of asylum seeker funerals by his immigration spokesman Scott Morrison and brazen anti-muslim comments by Cory Bernardi, but it remains to be seen whether Abbott puts his money where his mouth is about entrenched racism in some sections of the Liberal party," spokesman Jack H Smit said.

"Tony Abbott has today another opportunity to remain outspoken as the party leader over issues of race and vilification of asylum seekers, and we demand that he takes full, public and outspoken action against the race baiting by Senator Cash," Mr Smit concluded.

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