The Dutton-led Liberal party has just ousted yet another competent Liberal candidate from its ranks following statements made by the candidate in an effort to safeguard women in frontline combat roles.
Benjamin Britton, who was campaigning in the seat of Whitlam in Sydney’s south, has previously appeared on a segment created by pro-freedom advocate, Joel Jammal, where he stated the following:
‘If we’re to fix our Defence Force unfortunately they’re gonna need to remove females from combat corps. They push them into these roles – I’ve seen it – what’s actually happening is the discharge rate, the medical discharge rate for females, is off the planet. The concept of diversity and equity and these Woke Marxist ideologies [means] young women are being put on the altar and sacrificed.’
For stating that, and other concerns, Britton was dis-endorsed from the Liberal Party. Legacy media are behaving terribly, falsely painting Britton as some kind of misogynist. Several women in politics who are handling matters of intense violence for their jobs, including myself, are backing Britton, not Dutton, over this issue. Historically, what nation puts its females on the frontline of war in combat positions and succeeds?
It is unlikely that women in Australia wish to be impelled into combat, although this may happen when there is a shortage of males to fill roles, if quotas are introduced, or if they are coerced in the direction of the frontline to satisfy the growing Woke ideas of equity within Australia’s key combat departments.
There are myriad reasons why women should not be encouraged into combat roles, some of these include shifting combat dynamics, physical discrepancies when it comes to their ability, high dropout rates, and the loss of women from society in general.
No army in the world generally recommends significant portions of women in combat roles for self-explanatory reasons. If Australia wants to be effective in its war strategy it should perhaps listen to army veterans voicing real and practical concerns. Britton happens to be one of these said army veterans. And Andrew Hastie, the Shadow Minister for Defence and a fellow Liberal, shares similar concerns.
Speaking to Sky News Australia in 2018, he said:
‘Fighting DNA of a close combat unit is best preserved when it’s exclusively male.’
If it’s likely that half the Liberal Party membership are sympathetic to Britton’s views, why is Dutton cancelling members who voice very real and widespread concerns about the nature of military strategy and combat?
It’s funny, but the ones who have been involved in actual military combat situations in the Liberal Party are being scorned by people with no practical experience on the frontlines of Australia’s military forces themselves.
Defence matters, issues such as ‘diversity and equity’ need to be re-evaluated because the need for specific characteristics in individuals cannot be ignored in vital departments such as the Australian military. When it comes to defence of the country, the first priority for legislators should be securing the country, not ‘DEI’. This is beginning to change as progressive ideologies infiltrate sectors where conservative strategies, historically, are needed to secure the country from threats. An army full of women in combat will be weaker than an army of men. It therefore is not unreasonable to suggest that the strongest militaries in the world should be male-dominated.
When women go to war it changes the dynamic of the team involved in combat. It makes practical sense to want to incentivise males to join combat roles, and dis-incentivise women. It is my opinion that truly protective policies valuing both genders within society will seek to avoid throwing physically weaker people onto the frontline where physical strength is a vital prerequisite and requirement to do certain tasks.
What happened to Britton is a disgrace. If people did not agree with Britton, they would not elect him. He has had his election platform seized from underneath him on an issue where there is no consensus within the party itself.
As a voter, this tells me the Liberal Party has no backbone or ability to read their audience.
This has happened before with truly conservative candidates and it will keep happening.
They’ve just shot themselves in the foot in the middle of an election. Australians want proper conservatives running the country. Remember, it was their failure to adhere to fundamental values during the pandemic that caused multiple and fragmented freedom parties to erupt. Most of them were ex-Liberal members. Dutton should understand that properly conservative candidates gain both traction and votes.
Dutton continues to lose support because he is not conservative enough.
