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Will women lose when O'Farrell wins?

By Tim Brunero - posted Monday, 21 March 2011


Well the Party's Vice President Michael Photios, who is said to be a key leader in the party's moderate faction, can be said to love women.

In fact, his love of women has caused him a lot of strife in the past.

After losing his state seat in 1999 Photios was labelled a "love rat" after he left his pregnant wife for another woman.

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The 50-year-old former Fahey government Minister has since split with another wife and now has a 25-year-old girlfriend.

And of course the shadowy Right wing faction leader David Clarke mightn't endear himself to mainstream women either.

The devout Christian is well known for his anti abortion views.

And if the Liberal's victory on March 26 is as crushing as predicted Barry O'Farrell may well find with Labor reduced to only ten or so seats his real opposition comes from the Christian Right faction inside his own party.

A huge victory might be a double-edged sword for O'Farrell, the relative moderate.

But what about policy?

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Well given the lack of policy detail offered by the Liberal Party it's difficult to tell.

But they certainly seem to have all but matched Kristina Keneally's pledge on last week's International Women's Day to trial forcing domestic violence offenders and sex offenders to wear GPS bracelets.

And her plan to create specialist sexual assault courts, where the magistrate and prosecutors are experts in their fields, also received tacit support from the Liberals. The initiative will be trailed in the Illawarra.

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Tim Brunero is a specialist ‘cyber-journalist’. He works for news.com.au andisthe breakfast presenter for 2SER.

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