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WA election: Opposition Leader Zak Kirkup blocks media from questioning candidate ahead of WA election
WA Opposition Leader Zak Kirkup has prevented the media from questioning one of his candidates about her views on homosexuality at a press conference, just a day after another candidate was forced to resign over her views on 5G and coronavirus.
Key points:
- A WA Liberal candidate is under fire over comments made by her husband
- Her husband, a pastor, previously said homosexuality was “unhealthy”
- Mr Kirkup dismissed the comments as those of a “third party”
One day after Liberal Party candidate Andrea Tokaji quit over her apparent endorsement of baseless COVID-19 conspiracy theories, a journalist attempted to question the party’s Victoria Park candidate Amanda-Sue Markham over her husband’s writings about homosexuality.
Ms Markham has previously…
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