Vic Libs in a right muddle over on Daniel Andrews’s conversion bill

It seems the Victorian Liberal-National Opposition is taking strategic advice from the same people who are advising embattled Collingwood Football Club president Eddie McGuire.

On Thursday, the controversial Change or Suppression (Conversion) Practices Prohibition Bill 2020 is due to be debated in the Legislative Council, where Daniel Andrews’s Labor government doesn’t have a majority. But with the strong support of the Greens and two independents, including influential Fiona Patten, the Bill will pass.

This is despite serious and publicly-expressed concerns by Christian churches, Muslim leaders, the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists and the Australian Medical Association that the Bill is…