I spend an uncommon amount of time in South Australia for a person who doesn’t actually live there; I’d never heard of South Australian Liberal MP Ben Hood until his current private member’s bill to repoliticise abortion in the worst possible way.
Appointed directly by his party to fill a casual upper house vacancy last year, Hood was last before the will of the people when he contested Mt Gambier’s House of Assembly seat for the Liberal party in 2022 and lost. But with an electoral mandate of zero, the MP is now famous – congratulations, Ben – for reinflaming debate on the settled issue of abortion.
