I am on my soap box again … this time fighting for “single mothers” who are the butt of nasty comments by a David Archibald.
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David Archibald. Has anyone ever heard of him before he stood for election as a member of One Nation party? As a candidate, this fellow saw an opportunity to hit the headlines by an anti-women rant. So “entrenched single motherhood would lead to an increase in ‘ugly and lazy’ people?”
“Will it Mr Archibald? Well perhaps I might take the liberty of asking whether you come from such a family? Because your remarks are certainly “ugly” and you are too “lazy” to research the matter.
“Everyone who gets pregnant outside marriage is a volunteer” – I wonder if this man has daughters?
I can tell you that the title “single mother” covers quite a number of families: They usually fall into the category of the “three D’s”.
- mothers who are alone because of the DEATH of their soldier husbands, who went to war to fight for YOUR right to live in peace.
- mothers who have been DESERTED by the male who thought he was entitled to a “volunteer”
- mothers who DIVORCED, in many cases because their husband was out there LOOKING for more volunteers.
- women whose husbands have died of heart attacks, cancer, or any other disease.
Then this ridiculous man further annoyed me by saying pensions for disability and federally funded childcare should be dropped.
But, to cap it all, he agreed with then Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s decision to stop funding remote Indigenous communities, adding that remote communities were doing more harm than good.