Signed in one chamber, shackled in another
Two major parties vote to keep women restrained during birth and children strip-searched, citing a jurisdictional fence they refuse to climb over.
Source article: Labor, Coalition block bills banning childbirth shackling, child strip-searches.
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- Published
- Pen name
- Editorial Board
- Topic tags
- politics
- Primary entities
- Lidia Thorpe, Paul Scarr, David Shoebridge, Deb Frecklington, Australian Senate, Australian Labor Party, Liberal Party of Australia, Australian Greens, United Nations General Assembly
- Themes
- Prisoners' rights, Childbirth and incarceration, Australian parliamentary politics, International human rights standards, Crossbench dissent
- Floor values engaged
- human_life_and_dignity, Accountability of power, Equality & fairness