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data-id="d343ef93310db8a28e614941d8250f897c32ef34" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":1.777778,"type":"landspe16x9","width":460,"urls":["zoom_0.2315%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1.777778%2C$width_1059%2C$x_0%2C$y_77/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_460%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/d343ef93310db8a28e614941d8250f897c32ef34"," zoom_0.2315%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1.777778%2C$width_1059%2C$x_0%2C$y_77/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_920%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/d343ef93310db8a28e614941d8250f897c32ef34 2x"]}" width="460" height="259"/></picture><figptn class="LuHig"><p>Prime Mister Stt Morrison and wife Jenny at an Easter Sunday service at his Horizon Church at Sutherland Sydney 2019. <!-- --> <ce class="_23SOU">AAP</ce></p></figptn></figure></hear><div class="_2Xsxe"><sectn class="_2Bg2I P98rJ"><sectn class="_34rok"><div class="_1SJT9"><span class="_3Y35P"><span class="_3i9lf" data-ttid="AuthorNam"><strong><a class="wik9p" data-ttid="AuthorURL" href="/by/aaron-patrick-j7gdh">Aaron Patrick</a></strong><span> and </span><strong><a class="wik9p" data-ttid="AuthorURL" href="/by/tom-mcilroy-hverk">Tom McIlroy</a></strong></span></span></div><sectn class="AbPG4"><div class="_2cdD4" data-ttid="ArticleTimtamp"><time data-ttid="ArticleTimtamp-time">Feb 20, 2022 – 5.59pm</time></div><div class="_31gDS" data-ttid="ArticleTools"><div class="_26BHG"><button aria-scribedby="articleToolsLogTooltip" class="JSEcE WiPOW" data-click-outsi-ignore="te" data-ttid="SaveArticle-button" type="button"><span class="DcglW _3KahZ"><svg class="_1SIxy" focable="false" height="1em" aria-hidn="te" width="1em"><e xlk:href="#in-bookmark"></e></svg></span><span class="_1dFpl">Save</span></button><div class="G-AXw _3Xjsv" id="articleToolsLogTooltip" role="tooltip"><div class="_3sIJa" data-ttid="SaveArticle-tooltip"><button class="__V_M" type="button">Log </button> or <a class="_3NFfI" data-ttid="SaveArticle-subscribeLk" href=">Subscribe</a> to save article</div></div></div><div class="_332VY" data-ttid="ArticleSocialShare"><button class="_1whEj _3jOVc" data-ttid="ArticleSocialShare-buttonShare" type="button"><span class="_1cmVb _1hJaj"><svg class="_1SIxy" focable="false" height="1em" aria-hidn="te" width="1em"><e xlk:href="#in-share"></e></svg></span><span class="_35K">Share</span></button></div></div></sectn></sectn><p>On Wednday, Febary 9, around 6pm, five wary Liberal Party MPs – each timately and sadly faiar wh homophobic prejudice – gathered the Parliament Hoe office of psychologist-turned-polician Fna Mart for a moment of llective solace.</p><p>Twelve exhstg hours later, three of them would be shattered, emotnally and physilly, after takg one of the most nsequential cisn of their liv. They would flict upon the Morrison ernment the greatt parliamentary feat s 1265 days of existence, a loss they were warned, repeatedly, uld ci the feral electn.</p><p>Three of the MPs prent Mart’s office sue – Angie Bell, Trevor Evans and Trent Zimmerman – are gay. (Assistant Mister Tim Wilson, who is married to a male primary school teacher, had been prent earlier.) The other two, Mart and paediatrician Katie Allen, are medil profsnals wh a history of treatg children.</p><figure class="_3f9Zo unfed NvmVw" data-pb-type="im"><picture><source media="(m-width: 1180px)" width="620" height="620" srcSet="zoom_0.127%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_82%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_620%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/dd5ef66e14f0fe943e05c335cc673dcd51f28f94, zoom_0.127%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_82%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_1240%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/dd5ef66e14f0fe943e05c335cc673dcd51f28f94 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":1,"type":"square1x1","width":620,"urls":["zoom_0.127%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_82%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_620%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/dd5ef66e14f0fe943e05c335cc673dcd51f28f94"," zoom_0.127%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_82%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_1240%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/dd5ef66e14f0fe943e05c335cc673dcd51f28f94 2x"]}"/><source media="(m-width: 1020px)" width="620" height="620" srcSet="zoom_0.127%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_82%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_620%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/dd5ef66e14f0fe943e05c335cc673dcd51f28f94, zoom_0.127%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_82%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_1240%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/dd5ef66e14f0fe943e05c335cc673dcd51f28f94 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":1,"type":"square1x1","width":620,"urls":["zoom_0.127%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_82%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_620%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/dd5ef66e14f0fe943e05c335cc673dcd51f28f94"," zoom_0.127%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_82%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_1240%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/dd5ef66e14f0fe943e05c335cc673dcd51f28f94 2x"]}"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" width="540" height="540" srcSet="zoom_0.127%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_82%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_540%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/dd5ef66e14f0fe943e05c335cc673dcd51f28f94, zoom_0.127%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_82%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_1080%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/dd5ef66e14f0fe943e05c335cc673dcd51f28f94 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":1,"type":"square1x1","width":540,"urls":["zoom_0.127%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_82%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_540%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/dd5ef66e14f0fe943e05c335cc673dcd51f28f94"," zoom_0.127%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_82%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_1080%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/dd5ef66e14f0fe943e05c335cc673dcd51f28f94 2x"]}"/><img alt="" class="_1srKI" data-ttid="Image-image" src="zoom_0.127%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_82%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_620%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/dd5ef66e14f0fe943e05c335cc673dcd51f28f94" srcSet="zoom_0.127%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_82%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_382%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/dd5ef66e14f0fe943e05c335cc673dcd51f28f94, zoom_0.127%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_82%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_764%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/dd5ef66e14f0fe943e05c335cc673dcd51f28f94 2x" siz="(max-width: 767px) 382px" data-id="dd5ef66e14f0fe943e05c335cc673dcd51f28f94" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":1,"type":"square1x1","width":382,"urls":["zoom_0.127%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_82%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_382%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/dd5ef66e14f0fe943e05c335cc673dcd51f28f94"," zoom_0.127%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_82%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_764%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/dd5ef66e14f0fe943e05c335cc673dcd51f28f94 2x"]}" width="382" height="382"/></picture><figptn class="LuHig"><p>A ccial meetg took place the office of Liberal MP Fna Mart. <!-- --> <ce class="_23SOU">Domic Lorrimer</ce></p></figptn></figure><p>A televisn the room, turned to silent, showed Labor lear Anthony Albane givg a speech the Hoe of Reprentativ about a bill to prohib discrimatn agast stunts on relig grounds, but not agast children uncerta of their sexualy, or doubtg their blogil sex, by schools entsted wh their re.</p><p>Around 6pm, Jam Stevens, a young Alai MP, burst wh a two-page letter.</p><p>“Aren’t you watchg Albo’s speech?” Stevens said, acrdg to a person prent. “Have a look at this. Albo has jt tabled a letter om Stt, offerg him kids!”</p><p>The letter was passed around the room.</p><p>All wanted Morrison to end relig schools’ right to expel gay, lbian or transgenr stunts.</p><p>The letter, dated December 1, 2021, was explic. Exprsg appreciatn to Albane for Labor’s support for outlawg relig discrimatn – one of the Pentastal prime mister’s signature polici – Morrison promised to end the exemptn for “sexualy and genr inty” discrimatn created for Christian, Mlim, Jewish, Hdu and Buddhist tnal stutns.</p></sectn><asi class="_3kZQd _2H2M_"></asi></div><div class="ZAfSI"><div class="adWrapper _3XglG _2q7By GYyNR ArNEh" data-ttid="ad-wrapper"><div class="" id="adspot-320x360_320x50_300x250_300x50-pos2-mobile"></div><div class="" id="adspot-728x90-pos2-tablet"></div><div class="" id="adspot-970x250_728x90-pos2-sktop"></div><small class="_3azTn">Advertisement</small></div></div><sectn class="_1WJ6z"><div class="_3Msim"><sectn class="_2Bg2I" id="endOfArticle"><figure class="_3f9Zo unfed NvmVw" data-pb-type="im"><picture><source media="(m-width: 1180px)" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-srcset="width_620/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/5f19f9d124f7d6275502c6f75e17d5d47e037125, width_1240/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/5f19f9d124f7d6275502c6f75e17d5d47e037125 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":0,"type":"raw","width":620,"urls":["width_620/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/5f19f9d124f7d6275502c6f75e17d5d47e037125"," width_1240/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/5f19f9d124f7d6275502c6f75e17d5d47e037125 2x"]}"/><source media="(m-width: 1020px)" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-srcset="width_596/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/5f19f9d124f7d6275502c6f75e17d5d47e037125, width_1192/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/5f19f9d124f7d6275502c6f75e17d5d47e037125 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":0,"type":"raw","width":596,"urls":["width_596/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/5f19f9d124f7d6275502c6f75e17d5d47e037125"," width_1192/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/5f19f9d124f7d6275502c6f75e17d5d47e037125 2x"]}"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-srcset="width_540/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/5f19f9d124f7d6275502c6f75e17d5d47e037125, width_1080/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/5f19f9d124f7d6275502c6f75e17d5d47e037125 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":0,"type":"raw","width":540,"urls":["width_540/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/5f19f9d124f7d6275502c6f75e17d5d47e037125"," width_1080/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/5f19f9d124f7d6275502c6f75e17d5d47e037125 2x"]}"/><img alt="" class="_1srKI" data-ttid="Image-image" src="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-src="width_620/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/5f19f9d124f7d6275502c6f75e17d5d47e037125" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAMAAAACCAQAAAA3fa6RAAAADklEQVR42mNkAANGCAUAACMAA2w/AMgAAAAASUVORK5CYII=" data-srcset="width_382/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/5f19f9d124f7d6275502c6f75e17d5d47e037125, width_764/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/5f19f9d124f7d6275502c6f75e17d5d47e037125 2x" siz="(max-width: 767px) 382px" data-id="5f19f9d124f7d6275502c6f75e17d5d47e037125" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":0,"type":"raw","width":382,"urls":["width_382/t_rize_width%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/5f19f9d124f7d6275502c6f75e17d5d47e037125"," width_764/t_rize_width%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/5f19f9d124f7d6275502c6f75e17d5d47e037125 2x"]}"/></picture></figure><p>In practil terms, Morrison planned to troduce a new law and change an existg one.</p><p>“The ernment will move an amendment to remove the provisn of the Sex Discrimatn Act which was clud 2013 which limed the protectns provid unr the and other matters,” Morrison had wrten.</p><p>In Mart’s office, the group was stunned. They had been told Morrison had nied to nservative MPs he had offered protectn for trans-genr stunts. Eher he had lied, or changed his md.</p><p>The ernment’s official posn, which had only bee clear the prev day, was to make unlawful for schools to expel gay stunts. Other discrimatn agast them would be allowed, and trans-genr children uld be expelled.</p><p>“We’ve been left wh an amendment by the ernment that barely amends the Sex Discrimatn Act and leav many young people exposed to discrimatn, which is totally at odds wh what was promised wrg by the Prime Mister,” Albane told Parliament.</p><p>Mart, acrdg to a wns, photographed the letter and sent to Morrison’s top polil adviser, Yaron Fkelste.</p><p>“WTF?” she wrote. “Albo has jt tabled this.”</p><p>Thirteen mut later he replied: “Thanks”.</p><p>Mart rpond: “You have a lot of doubt here now.”</p><div class="ZAfSI"><div class="adWrapper _3XglG _2q7By GYyNR _1wVyG" data-ttid="ad-wrapper"><div class="" id="adspot-320x360_320x50_300x250_300x50-pos3-mobile"></div><div class="" id="adspot-728x90-pos3-tablet"></div><div class="" id="adspot-970x250_728x90-pos3-sktop"></div><small class="_3azTn">Advertisement</small></div></div><p>Bell, a Queenslanr, had led discsns December wh Attorney-General Michaelia Cash and Morrison to outlaw schools discrimatn.</p><p>Thkg they had a al, acrdg to people who knew her, she took the reversal hard.</p><p>“Angie was bi herself,” said one MP. “She was extremely distrsed.”</p><p>The group felt Morrison had succumbed to prsure om the party’s relig right.</p><p>Allen, who aspired to bee a senr mister, wrtled wh her nscience.</p><figure class="_3f9Zo _2ZFpX NvmVw" data-pb-type="im"><picture><source media="(m-width: 1180px)" width="1440" height="811" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==" data-srcset="zoom_0.441%2C$multiply_2%2C$rat_1.776846%2C$width_1059%2C$x_395%2C$y_22/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_1440%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/2a7b4d1cfe81ab1e70d95b16bf6774e038cb26, 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Bell was “extremely distrsed”, acrdg to one MP. <!-- --> <ce class="_23SOU">Alex Ellghsen</ce></p></figptn></figure><p>“Katie was on-off, on-off,” the MP said. “She kept changg her md. She was tryg to get her head around .”</p><p>In the Prime Mister’s office, Morrison and Fkelste were acutely aware a rebelln was unr way.</p><p>Zimmerman, meetgs of Liberal and Natnals MPs the day before, had dited he might vote agast the Relig Discrimatn Bill whout chang to the Sex Discrimatn Act.</p><p>“Trent rerved his right” to vote agast the ernment, acrdg to an MP prent. “He didn’t say much else of note.”</p><div class="ZAfSI"><div class="adWrapper _3XglG _2q7By GYyNR _1wVyG" data-ttid="ad-wrapper"><div class="" id="adspot-320x360_320x50_300x250_300x50-pos4-mobile"></div><div class="" id="adspot-728x90-pos4-tablet"></div><div class="" id="adspot-970x250_728x90-pos4-sktop"></div><small class="_3azTn">Advertisement</small></div></div><p>Conservative MPs were adamant discrimatn based on genr inty had to stay. They didn’t want, for example, an all-boys school beg sued if cid to expel a stunt who cis he is or wants to prent as a girl, or e female bathrooms and change rooms.</p><p>One Liberal MP scribed their ments the meetgs as “a nga le of right-wg homophobic slash transphobic speech”.</p><hr/><p>Morrison, unr attack om nservativ for what they regard as a lack of prcipl, would receive two ma polil benefs om a new relig discrimatn law.</p><p>He would please the church, who reprented lns of vout Atralians, and possibly divi the Labor Party, where old antagonisms between the secular left and Catholic-fluenced right persisted.</p><p>But tougheng the Sex Discrimatn Act would negate, om the church’ perspective, the new law.</p><p>Twenty-four hours earlier, Morrison and Attorney-General Michaelia Cash had a meetg wh an pennt-md Tasmanian MP, Bridget Archer.</p><figure class="_3f9Zo unfed NvmVw" data-pb-type="im"><picture><source media="(m-width: 1180px)" width="620" height="620" 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srcSet="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7, data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" data-srcset="zoom_0.132%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_130%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_382%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/84e73a608e47f9c97a29c40fafb3fcbea78d35, zoom_0.132%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_130%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_764%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/84e73a608e47f9c97a29c40fafb3fcbea78d35 2x" siz="(max-width: 767px) 382px" data-id="84e73a608e47f9c97a29c40fafb3fcbea78d35" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":1,"type":"square1x1","width":382,"urls":["zoom_0.132%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_130%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_382%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/84e73a608e47f9c97a29c40fafb3fcbea78d35"," zoom_0.132%2C$multiply_4%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_130%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_764%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/84e73a608e47f9c97a29c40fafb3fcbea78d35 2x"]}" width="382" height="382"/></picture><figptn class="LuHig"><p>Tasmanian MP Bridget Archer: “They were no doubt how I was gog to vote.”<!-- --> <ce class="_23SOU">Alex Ellghsen</ce></p></figptn></figure><p>Stg on burnt-orange uch Morrison’s private office, built for the buildg’s openg 1988, Archer said she didn’t want a Tasmanian anti-discrimatn law overled by a feral act. Morrison and Cash asked her to nsir abstag.</p><p>“I said I would nsir but was not likely,” Archer said an terview last week. “They were no doubt how I was gog to vote on the issue.”</p><div class="ZAfSI"><div class="adWrapper _3XglG _2q7By GYyNR _1wVyG" data-ttid="ad-wrapper"><div class="" id="adspot-320x360_320x50_300x250_300x50-pos5-mobile"></div><div class="" id="adspot-728x90-pos5-tablet"></div><div class="" id="adspot-970x250_728x90-pos5-sktop"></div><small class="_3azTn">Advertisement</small></div></div><p>Tasmania had bee an important se study the bate when a Catholic archbishop Hobart, Julian Porteo, <a href=">was vtigated</a> by the state’s anti-discrimatn missner for distributg a leaflet schools opposg same-sex marriage. The plat was eventually whdrawn.</p><p>By Wednday afternoon, the Prime Mister’s staff had wrten off Archer and Zimmerman. They knew they uld still w the Hoe of Reprentativ vot by limg the fectns to two.</p><p>Morrison and his senr misters alloted the other potential rebels between them.</p><p>The Prime Mister rang Sharma twice. Cash, Treasurer Josh Frynberg and Foreign Mister Marise Payne lled the MPs they knew bt.</p><p>Fance Mister Simon Birmgham, the senr Senate mister, ntacted senators to ensure the legislatn would pass the upper hoe, cludg Andrew Bragg, who had mpaigned for same-sex marriage 2017.</p><p>They weren’t subtle.</p><p>“The msage was: if you oppose this we’re gog to lose the electn,” one Liberal MP said.</p><p>Parliament had ls than 10 stg days left before an electn would be lled, which meant the legislatn uldn’t be left any longer.</p><p>“We were heavied, joled, persuad [and] told var thgs about the nsequenc to the ernment,” another Liberal said. “It felt like the Prime Mister had put himself on a limb and was darg to cut him down.”</p><hr/><div class="ZAfSI"><div class="adWrapper _3XglG _2q7By GYyNR _1wVyG" data-ttid="ad-wrapper"><div class="" id="adspot-320x360_320x50_300x250_300x50-pos6-mobile"></div><div class="" id="adspot-728x90-pos6-tablet"></div><div class="" id="adspot-970x250_728x90-pos6-sktop"></div><small class="_3azTn">Advertisement</small></div></div><p>At 10pm, the dissenters were summoned to Morrison’s office. Archer and Zimmerman didn’t attend. Allen was walkg along a long rridor that leads to Morrison’s office when she was seen takg a phone ll. She didn’t go .</p><p>Insi, Bell, Mart, Sharma and Warren Entsch, a long-time supporter of gay and lbian rights, faced Morrison, Frynberg and Birmgham. Allen’s lotn was a mystery.</p><p>Sharma was a particularly awkward posn. A heterosexual man reprentg Wentworth Sydney’s eastern suburbs, his lol LGBTI muny was large and polilly active. He faced a well-rourced opponent pennt ndidate Allegra Spenr.</p><p>At the same time, out of loyalty to the ernment, Sharma didn’t want to st the cisive third vote.</p><figure class="_3f9Zo unfed NvmVw" data-pb-type="im"><picture><source media="(m-width: 1180px)" width="620" height="620" srcSet="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7, data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" data-srcset="zoom_0.275%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_428%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_620%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/eff72d768b9c6fcc41d9cbe5b677c7e18fa44ed0, zoom_0.275%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_428%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_1240%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/eff72d768b9c6fcc41d9cbe5b677c7e18fa44ed0 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":1,"type":"square1x1","width":620,"urls":["zoom_0.275%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_428%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_620%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/eff72d768b9c6fcc41d9cbe5b677c7e18fa44ed0"," zoom_0.275%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_428%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_1240%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/eff72d768b9c6fcc41d9cbe5b677c7e18fa44ed0 2x"]}"/><source media="(m-width: 1020px)" width="620" height="620" srcSet="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7, data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" data-srcset="zoom_0.275%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_428%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_620%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/eff72d768b9c6fcc41d9cbe5b677c7e18fa44ed0, zoom_0.275%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_428%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_1240%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/eff72d768b9c6fcc41d9cbe5b677c7e18fa44ed0 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":1,"type":"square1x1","width":620,"urls":["zoom_0.275%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_428%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_620%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/eff72d768b9c6fcc41d9cbe5b677c7e18fa44ed0"," zoom_0.275%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_428%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_1240%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/eff72d768b9c6fcc41d9cbe5b677c7e18fa44ed0 2x"]}"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" width="540" height="540" srcSet="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7, data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" data-srcset="zoom_0.275%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_428%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_540%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/eff72d768b9c6fcc41d9cbe5b677c7e18fa44ed0, zoom_0.275%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_428%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_1080%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/eff72d768b9c6fcc41d9cbe5b677c7e18fa44ed0 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":1,"type":"square1x1","width":540,"urls":["zoom_0.275%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_428%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_540%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/eff72d768b9c6fcc41d9cbe5b677c7e18fa44ed0"," zoom_0.275%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_428%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_1080%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/eff72d768b9c6fcc41d9cbe5b677c7e18fa44ed0 2x"]}"/><img alt="" class="_1srKI" data-ttid="Image-image" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" data-src="zoom_0.275%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_428%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_620%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/eff72d768b9c6fcc41d9cbe5b677c7e18fa44ed0" srcSet="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7, data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" data-srcset="zoom_0.275%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_428%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_382%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/eff72d768b9c6fcc41d9cbe5b677c7e18fa44ed0, zoom_0.275%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_428%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_764%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/eff72d768b9c6fcc41d9cbe5b677c7e18fa44ed0 2x" siz="(max-width: 767px) 382px" data-id="eff72d768b9c6fcc41d9cbe5b677c7e18fa44ed0" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":1,"type":"square1x1","width":382,"urls":["zoom_0.275%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_428%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_382%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/eff72d768b9c6fcc41d9cbe5b677c7e18fa44ed0"," zoom_0.275%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_428%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_764%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/eff72d768b9c6fcc41d9cbe5b677c7e18fa44ed0 2x"]}" width="382" height="382"/></picture><figptn class="LuHig"><p>Liberal MP Dave Sharma: “I had ma a mment to my electorate.”<!-- --> <ce class="_23SOU">Alex Ellghsen</ce></p></figptn></figure><p>“Trent and Bridget were crossg,” one MP volved said. “They need one more to make fail. They had to fd that one person.”</p><p>Mart didn’t say much. Entsch was willg to negotiate. He agreed wh a proposal to expand and accelerate a review by the Atralian Law Reform Commissn on discrimatn schools.</p><p>“One thg I realised, towards the end, was we’d phed as far as was gog to go,” Entsch said an terview last week.</p><p>About 45 mut to the meetg, Morrison got a text om Allen. “Katie’s out,” the Prime Mister said, acrdg to a person prent. “The meetg’s over.”</p><p>Wh two hours, a text msage went around om Wilson, a Victorian like Allen. “Katie’s back ,” said.</p><div class="ZAfSI"><div class="adWrapper _3XglG _2q7By GYyNR _1wVyG" data-ttid="ad-wrapper"><div class="" id="adspot-320x360_320x50_300x250_300x50-pos7-mobile"></div><div class="" id="adspot-728x90-pos7-tablet"></div><div class="" id="adspot-970x250_728x90-pos7-sktop"></div><small class="_3azTn">Advertisement</small></div></div><div class="_2C6bw"><iame class="_1K-lX _2kKiG _3JJDE" ameBorr="0" height="157" id="iameRize390fd60d8adac8d88e079814b85ef0ece229ab19" tle="Embedd iFrame" data-id="390fd60d8adac8d88e079814b85ef0ece229ab19" data-src="></iame><img alt="" class="_36HFM" src="></div><p>Morrison and his team hadn’t given up. At 12.50am, after 38 other MPs had given speech on the proposed chang, Morrison stood at Parliament’s famed dispatch box and, effect, clared he had cut a al wh his own MPs.</p><p>A one-off parliamentary mtee would be created to work out how to “bt provi support to children and their fai those suatns”. It would be chaired by Allen and “supported by the member for Reid”, which was Mart’s electorate.</p><p>“Both have great clil experience addrsg the issu,” Morrison said.</p><p>Watchg om her office, Mart heard the Prime Mister mentn her seat, acrdg to a person who spoke to her later. It was the first she knew about the quiry.</p><figure class="_3f9Zo _2ZFpX NvmVw" data-pb-type="im"><picture><source media="(m-width: 1180px)" width="1440" height="811" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==" data-srcset="zoom_0.232%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1.776846%2C$width_1059%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_1440%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/ba01903eceaef9e5ba91f8b655cfafd7ef0bf5c9, zoom_0.232%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1.776846%2C$width_1059%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_2880%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/ba01903eceaef9e5ba91f8b655cfafd7ef0bf5c9 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":1.776846,"type":"landspe16x9","width":1440,"urls":["zoom_0.232%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1.776846%2C$width_1059%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_1440%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/ba01903eceaef9e5ba91f8b655cfafd7ef0bf5c9"," zoom_0.232%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1.776846%2C$width_1059%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_2880%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/ba01903eceaef9e5ba91f8b655cfafd7ef0bf5c9 2x"]}"/><source media="(m-width: 1020px)" width="1259" height="709" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==" data-srcset="zoom_0.232%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1.776846%2C$width_1059%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_1259%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/ba01903eceaef9e5ba91f8b655cfafd7ef0bf5c9, zoom_0.232%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1.776846%2C$width_1059%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_2518%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/ba01903eceaef9e5ba91f8b655cfafd7ef0bf5c9 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":1.776846,"type":"landspe16x9","width":1259,"urls":["zoom_0.232%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1.776846%2C$width_1059%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_1259%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/ba01903eceaef9e5ba91f8b655cfafd7ef0bf5c9"," zoom_0.232%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1.776846%2C$width_1059%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_2518%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/ba01903eceaef9e5ba91f8b655cfafd7ef0bf5c9 2x"]}"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" width="800" height="451" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==" data-srcset="zoom_0.232%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1.776846%2C$width_1059%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_800%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/ba01903eceaef9e5ba91f8b655cfafd7ef0bf5c9, zoom_0.232%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1.776846%2C$width_1059%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_1600%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/ba01903eceaef9e5ba91f8b655cfafd7ef0bf5c9 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":1.776846,"type":"landspe16x9","width":800,"urls":["zoom_0.232%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1.776846%2C$width_1059%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_800%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/ba01903eceaef9e5ba91f8b655cfafd7ef0bf5c9"," zoom_0.232%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1.776846%2C$width_1059%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_1600%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/ba01903eceaef9e5ba91f8b655cfafd7ef0bf5c9 2x"]}"/><img alt="" class="_1srKI" data-ttid="Image-image" src="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==" data-src="zoom_0.232%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1.776846%2C$width_1059%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_1440%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/ba01903eceaef9e5ba91f8b655cfafd7ef0bf5c9" srcSet="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==, data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==" data-srcset="zoom_0.232%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1.776846%2C$width_1059%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_414%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/ba01903eceaef9e5ba91f8b655cfafd7ef0bf5c9, zoom_0.232%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1.776846%2C$width_1059%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_828%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/ba01903eceaef9e5ba91f8b655cfafd7ef0bf5c9 2x" siz="(max-width: 767px) 414px" data-id="ba01903eceaef9e5ba91f8b655cfafd7ef0bf5c9" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":1.776846,"type":"landspe16x9","width":414,"urls":["zoom_0.232%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1.776846%2C$width_1059%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_414%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/ba01903eceaef9e5ba91f8b655cfafd7ef0bf5c9"," zoom_0.232%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1.776846%2C$width_1059%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_828%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/ba01903eceaef9e5ba91f8b655cfafd7ef0bf5c9 2x"]}" width="414" height="233"/></picture><figptn class="LuHig"><p>Prime Mister Stt Morrison Qutn Time a few hours after five Liberal MPs voted agast the ernment.<!-- --> <ce class="_23SOU">Alex Ellghsen</ce></p></figptn></figure><p>Mart texted Fkelste seekg more rmatn, acrdg to the source. Morrison replied at 1.48am.</p><p>“I hope you will do bee will give you a b of sunlight,” he said, acrdg to the source.</p><p>Wh an electn due by May, the mtee would stggle to do much about such an tractable problem.</p><p>“We disvered this mtee was jt a farce,” one MP said.</p><div class="ZAfSI"><div class="adWrapper _3XglG _2q7By GYyNR _1wVyG" data-ttid="ad-wrapper"><div class="" id="adspot-320x360_320x50_300x250_300x50-pos8-mobile"></div><div class="" id="adspot-728x90-pos8-tablet"></div><div class="" id="adspot-970x250_728x90-pos8-sktop"></div><small class="_3azTn">Advertisement</small></div></div><p>At 4.15am Mart got another text om Morrison, acrdg to the source, who was briefed on the munitn. “Can we please speak?” he said.</p><p>Mart didn’t reply. She was by crossg the floor.</p><p>Four mut earlier, Archer, Mart and Zimmerman had voted to protect all <em>stunts and staff</em> at relig schools om discrimatn.</p><p>By this time the terlockg stcture of the als Morrison had bbled together were g apart. The Labor Party, which didn’t want to stop relig schools firg gay teachers, sid wh Morrison, featg the first proposed change to the Sex Discrimatn Act.</p><p>But the Liberal rebels had three vot, which meant that Sharma and Allen realised they uld jo them on the same si as Labor on a more most change, whout beg blamed for alterg the oute of the vote.</p><p>Offerg Allen a mtee chairmanship hadn’t worked.</p><p>“Katie had ma up her md and didn’t want to be heavied any more,” one of her lleagu said. “It shows that if you are extractg the thgs unr prsure, you n’t be surprised if they don’t hold.”</p><p>At 4.41am Parliament nsired whether to ban discrimatn agast stunts for their sexual orientatn or genr inty by strippg sectn 38(3) om the Sex Discrimatn Act. Teachers would not be protected.</p><p>“The ernment do not support this amendment,” the Mister for Communitns, Urban Inastcture, Ci and the Arts, Pl Fletcher, said the chamber.</p><p>“The ernment’s proposed amendments, which I will move shortly, give effect to our mment to ensure that no child is expelled om their school due to their sexual orientatn.”</p><div class="ZAfSI"><div class="adWrapper _3XglG _2q7By GYyNR _1wVyG" data-ttid="ad-wrapper"><div class="" id="adspot-320x360_320x50_300x250_300x50-pos9-mobile"></div><div class="" id="adspot-728x90-pos9-tablet"></div><div class="" id="adspot-970x250_728x90-pos9-sktop"></div><small class="_3azTn">Advertisement</small></div></div><p>Allen, Archer, Mart, Sharma and Zimmerman sid wh the Labor Party, Greens and pennts, which meant the ernment lost by 65 to 59 vot. Bell, Evans and Wilson stuck wh their lleagu.</p><p>“I had ma a mment to my electorate to elimate discrimatn agast gay and trans kids,” Sharma said last week. “It was important that I kept that mment. But I ma clear that I supported the Relig Discrimatn Bill and would vote for .”</p><p>Bell’s cisn was the most surprisg. “They got to Angie somehow,” one MP said. “We don’t know how.”</p><p>Of the five rebels, only Archer voted agast the Relig Discrimatn Bill, which was passed wh Labor support.</p><p>When the parliamentary ssn end at 5am, the mood among the tired Coaln MPs was tense. They all knew Morrison had suffered a blow to his thory and prtige. The electoral nsequenc were unclear.</p><p>Archer and the other rebels checked on each other’s welfare. “There was genue re for each other,” she said. “It was a b of emotnal support.”</p><p>The vot were a signifint moment parliamentary history. While is not unmon for Coaln MPs to si agast their parti, none changed the oute of a bill or rolutn between 2004 and 2019, acrdg to a <a href=">2020 study</a> by the parliamentary library.</p><figure class="_3f9Zo unfed NvmVw" data-pb-type="im"><picture><source media="(m-width: 1180px)" width="620" height="620" srcSet="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7, data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" data-srcset="zoom_0.301%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_795%2C$y_208/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_620%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/747d964868519b8d23f953166098aba191395849, zoom_0.301%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_795%2C$y_208/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_1240%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/747d964868519b8d23f953166098aba191395849 2x" 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zoom_0.301%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_795%2C$y_208/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_764%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/747d964868519b8d23f953166098aba191395849 2x" siz="(max-width: 767px) 382px" data-id="747d964868519b8d23f953166098aba191395849" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":1,"type":"square1x1","width":382,"urls":["zoom_0.301%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_795%2C$y_208/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_382%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/747d964868519b8d23f953166098aba191395849"," zoom_0.301%2C$multiply_3%2C$rat_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_795%2C$y_208/t_crop_ctom/c_sle%2Cw_764%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/747d964868519b8d23f953166098aba191395849 2x"]}" width="382" height="382"/></picture><figptn class="LuHig"><p>Senator Andrew Bragg said he was prepared to back strengtheng the Sex Discrimatn Act.<!-- --> <ce class="_23SOU">Jam Brickwood</ce></p></figptn></figure><p>In this se, led to the failure of an important ernment policy.</p><p>The next day, the ernment cid would not ask the Senate to ban relig discrimatn, which means the bill will lapse when the electn is lled.</p><div class="ZAfSI"><div class="adWrapper _3XglG _2q7By GYyNR _1wVyG" data-ttid="ad-wrapper"><div class="" id="adspot-320x360_320x50_300x250_300x50-pos10-mobile"></div><div class="" id="adspot-728x90-pos10-tablet"></div><div class="" id="adspot-970x250_728x90-pos10-sktop"></div><small class="_3azTn">Advertisement</small></div></div><p>Morrison gave up after Bragg told Birmgham he was prepared to support, the Senate, the Hoe of Reprentativ’ cisn to strengthen the Sex Discrimatn Act.</p><p>Two other Coaln senators had dited they might cross the floor too, acrdg to another MP volved the discsns.</p><p>The ernment faced the unfortable prospect of implementg a law opposed and a parliamentary feat on an important policy near the start of an electn mpaign.</p><p>The Prime Mister avoid qutns om journalists the followg days. “There’ll be a time and a place to talk about those issu,” he said on Friday, Febary 11.</p><p>The media verage soon petered out, and Morrison’s office told some MPs to stop discsg the vote. Wantg the real story to be told, not all agreed.</p><p>“We’re not jt here to work for the Liberal Party,” Bragg said an terview last week. “We are here to work for the people who elect .”</p><p>After the vote, Archer got about an hour of fful sleep. She was ncerned about sleepg through the start of Parliament the same day.</p><p>“At the end of the day people have to accept what happened and move forward,” she said. “That’s mocracy.”</p></sectn><div class="_3nTt0 _1-k7i" data-ttid="ArticleFooter"><div class="_30U_H"><div class="_26BHG"><button aria-scribedby="articleFooterLogTooltip" class="JSEcE uxhXB" data-click-outsi-ignore="te" data-ttid="SaveArticle-button" type="button"><span class="DcglW"><svg class="_1SIxy" focable="false" height="1em" aria-hidn="te" width="1em"><e xlk:href="#in-bookmark"></e></svg></span><span class="">Save</span></button><div class="_2jGyo _3Xjsv" id="articleFooterLogTooltip" role="tooltip"><div class="KNEjM" data-ttid="SaveArticle-tooltip"><button class="__V_M" type="button">Log </button> or <a class="_3NFfI" data-ttid="SaveArticle-subscribeLk" href=">Subscribe</a> to save article</div></div></div><div class="_332VY" data-ttid="ArticleSocialShare"><button class="_1whEj E-qQO" data-ttid="ArticleSocialShare-buttonShare" type="button"><span class="_1cmVb"><svg class="_1SIxy" focable="false" height="1em" aria-hidn="te" width="1em"><e xlk:href="#in-share"></e></svg></span><span class="">Share</span></button></div></div><div class="_28OFW"><button class="DAADa" type="button">Prt article</button><div class="nEW5f _39ULh"><a class="_2SABC" href=" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span>License article</span></a></div></div></div><div class="_2ncsN UYykW" data-ttid="ArticleTags"><div class="_27M2O _2-Rvi" data-ttid="NewsfeedArticleDriver" role="alert"><hear class="_1slp0"><h2 class="_2iSlc">Introducg your <span class="_3jl0N">Newsfeed</span></h2><button class="_1aHhd" data-ttid="NewsfeedArticleDriver-close" type="button"><svg class="_1SIxy" aria-labelledby="newsfeed article driverclose-tle" focable="false" height="1em" aria-label="Close" role="img" width="1em"><tle id="newsfeed article driverclose-tle">Close
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