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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Ben Smee

Amanda Stoker targets Christian right in hopes of retaining Queensland Senate seat

Amanda Stoker
Amanda Stoker was dropped to third place on the LNP Queensland Senate ticket after a preselection battle. Photograph: Mike Bowers/The Guardian

Less than a week before the federal election, the assistant minister for women, Amanda Stoker, sat down for a video interview with Warwick Marsh, a conservative Christian and men’s rights activist.

Marsh was sacked as a federal government men’s health ambassador in 2008 after he refused to distance himself from some of the claims in a report he co-authored that claimed “homosexuality is a mental disorder”. He has denied being homophobic and said previously there is a “war on men” and that the gender pay gap is “a myth”.

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