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Julie Collins (Ungrouped Independent)
May. 9th, 2022 01:28 pmJulie Collins:
Website: https://www.juliecollinsnsw.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JulieCollinsNSW/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/juliecollinsnsw/
Julie Collins is a Ngunnawal woman living in Tamworth, running with the slogan “Sensible Solutions”. Her main hobbyhorse is the Family Law Court System and a bunch of right wing social views.
Collins is worried about the removal of children from families, which given her background is completely understandable. She also wants more protections for children in the Family Court system and doesn’t like expert witnesses. In terms of family and domestic violence, Collins is concerned the current systems are not doing enough for families in crisis. Her solutions are tougher sentencing for domestic violence, more support for reporting domestic violence, children not having orders to see family members convicted of domestic violence. Also she throws around the suggestion of chemical castration for repeat sex offenders against children.
Collins is anti-abortion and anti-euthanasia. She also wants more money for aged care and palliative care.
Collins is an anti-vaxxer, and your standard Covid protestor who is against vaccine mandates, lockdowns and border closures. She feels that COVID and border closures have divided the community and caused rifts in family relationships. She’s upset about the people who lost their jobs over not being vaccinated. Given they were mostly medical personnel and teachers, people who should be fully vaccinated in any case, this argument is remarkably unsympathetic. She’s more upset about the police brutality breaking up the protests than the fact that unvaccinated people are at higher risk of serious illness and death.
Collins is a TERF into gender essentialism (women’s bodies are different!). She doesn’t believe in trans people, gender fluidity, and is against Safe Schools. She thinks the Family Court shouldn’t be allowed to make orders in line with children’s wishes about transition (or about getting kids vaccinated, for that matter). Hate I have to say this, but this is really unacceptable, against the evidence and research, and is more likely to harm kids than help them.
Finally, she has an environment policy that is ambivalent to whether climate change exists. She is for less land clearing and cutting down trees and comments that whales help reduce greenhouse gases (okay, but that’s not really a solution on any scale). She also wants less plastic waste and more biodegradeable products so they don’t contaminate waterways and the sea. She doesn’t like water licences being held by mining companies when they could instead be held by farmers.
I’m sympathetic to Collins’ feelings about the Family Court system (which is generally considered to have issues by all parties involved, with the only upside in it being an improvement on every previous system we’ve had), but she is otherwise a right wing TERF, anti-vaxxer, anti-abortion and anti-euthanasia. These are all dealbreakers for me.
Website: https://www.juliecollinsnsw.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JulieCollinsNSW/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/juliecollinsnsw/
Julie Collins is a Ngunnawal woman living in Tamworth, running with the slogan “Sensible Solutions”. Her main hobbyhorse is the Family Law Court System and a bunch of right wing social views.
Collins is worried about the removal of children from families, which given her background is completely understandable. She also wants more protections for children in the Family Court system and doesn’t like expert witnesses. In terms of family and domestic violence, Collins is concerned the current systems are not doing enough for families in crisis. Her solutions are tougher sentencing for domestic violence, more support for reporting domestic violence, children not having orders to see family members convicted of domestic violence. Also she throws around the suggestion of chemical castration for repeat sex offenders against children.
Collins is anti-abortion and anti-euthanasia. She also wants more money for aged care and palliative care.
Collins is an anti-vaxxer, and your standard Covid protestor who is against vaccine mandates, lockdowns and border closures. She feels that COVID and border closures have divided the community and caused rifts in family relationships. She’s upset about the people who lost their jobs over not being vaccinated. Given they were mostly medical personnel and teachers, people who should be fully vaccinated in any case, this argument is remarkably unsympathetic. She’s more upset about the police brutality breaking up the protests than the fact that unvaccinated people are at higher risk of serious illness and death.
Collins is a TERF into gender essentialism (women’s bodies are different!). She doesn’t believe in trans people, gender fluidity, and is against Safe Schools. She thinks the Family Court shouldn’t be allowed to make orders in line with children’s wishes about transition (or about getting kids vaccinated, for that matter). Hate I have to say this, but this is really unacceptable, against the evidence and research, and is more likely to harm kids than help them.
Finally, she has an environment policy that is ambivalent to whether climate change exists. She is for less land clearing and cutting down trees and comments that whales help reduce greenhouse gases (okay, but that’s not really a solution on any scale). She also wants less plastic waste and more biodegradeable products so they don’t contaminate waterways and the sea. She doesn’t like water licences being held by mining companies when they could instead be held by farmers.
I’m sympathetic to Collins’ feelings about the Family Court system (which is generally considered to have issues by all parties involved, with the only upside in it being an improvement on every previous system we’ve had), but she is otherwise a right wing TERF, anti-vaxxer, anti-abortion and anti-euthanasia. These are all dealbreakers for me.
