The prime minister faces a backroom insurrection over the Safe Schools program,but any action other than to stare it down could cripple the leaderHeres a curious thing. February was not the first time Coalition parliamentarians raised objections to the Safe Schools program in their party room. But when Nationals Barry O’Sullivan and George Christensen and Liberal Cory Bernardi previously waved Safe Schools fabric around in the closed-door meeting and said they couldn’t believe it was being federally-funded, Tony Abbott was prime minister. The then education minister, and Christopher Pyne,dismissed the call, saying the government didn’t as a rule trash funding agreements already in region. And nothing more was said.
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Source: theguardian.com