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‘Email it or post it’: Women’s Minister Marise Payne snubs women’s march on Parliament – Sydney Morning Herald
The most senior woman in the Morrison government will not meet protesters calling for an end to gendered violence against women.
The minister will receive the petition in due course, noting successive governments have frequently received petitions on many matters via correspondence, consistent with protocol.
Janine Hendry, a 58-year-old Melbourne academic who is one of the organisers of the Womens March 4 Justice, said she was disappointed Senator Payne would not be one of them.
I called Senator Paynes office directly and her chief of staff returned my call, at which time he informed me the minister would not be available…
