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EMILY's List Australia is a political network in Australia that supports progressive women candidates seeking election to political office. EMILY's List Australia was inspired by EMILY's List, a Political Action Committee with similar goals in the United States.

Issues central to the organisation's support of candidates are the principles of equity, diversity, reproductive rights, and the provision of equal pay and childcare.[1]

Over 230 EMILY's List members have been elected to state and federal Australian Parliaments.[2] The organisation was founded in 1996 and supports candidates through directed donations, "Early Money" financial support, gender gap research and volunteer support.[3]

History

On 26 November 1994, at Fire with Fire: The Feminist Forum held at the Sydney Town Hall, Joan Kirner mentioned the plan currently before the ALP National Executive to introduce an Australian version of the US Emily's List.[4]

In 1994, the ALP National Conference passed an Affirmative Action Rule requiring that women be pre-selected in 35 per cent of winnable seats, in all elections, by 2002.[5] This was at the same time as passing of the Affirmative Action (Equal Employment Opportunity for Women) Act 1986. In 1995 the ALP decided to form an internal version of EMILY's List,[6] and in 1996 Kirner established EMILY's List Australia outside the party.[7][8][9] with the aim of attaining 45% female membership in both the House of Representatives and the Senate.

The name EMILY comes from its United States equivalent and is an acronym for "Early Money Is Like Yeast"[10][11] from the political saying, "Early money is like yeast, because it helps to raise the dough".

In the 2004 Federal Election campaign EMILY's List donated a total of $100,000 to candidates. Research conducted by EMILY's List and submitted to the Labor Party's national executive stated that Labor women regarded then health spokeswoman Julia Gillard as the best performer during the campaign, with then Prime Minister John Howard in second place. Of Mark Latham their submission stated; "the most common themes were: perceived aggression, concern he had been watered down for the campaign, inexperience, constantly going on about background, glib answers, bully boy tactics of the past"[12]

In the 2010 Federal Election campaign EMILY's List undertook Gender Gap research in six key marginal seats and undertook a targeted campaign incorporating materials along the themes of 'We Can't Trust Tony', 'Let's Make History' and 'Torpedo the Speedo'.[13]

In the 2012 Australian Capital Territory and Northern Territory elections, for the first time EMILY's List endorsed every female Labor Party candidate contesting those elections.[14][15]

Australia's first female Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, was a founding member of EMILY's List Australia and assisted to prepare their initial constitution. She presented the Inaugural EMILY's List Oration at Parliament House, Canberra in September 2011.[16]

Organisational structure

EMILY's List Australia is run by a National Committee which includes parliamentarians, volunteers and women unionists. Although it is a partisan organisation, is not controlled by the formal structures of the ALP. At the State and Territory level there are "Action Groups" (ELAG) which have their own organisational structures.[17] South Australian Senator Anne McEwen and Victorian lawyer, poet and writer Tanja Kovac are currently the National Co-convenors.18

EMILY's List | Hillary Clinton | Julia Gillard

Ready for a laugh?

Hillary Clinton nearly falls down stairs in India -- twice! (The American Mirror - Published on Mar 12, 2018)

Julia Gillard falls over during India visit (The Telegraph - Published on Oct 17, 2012)


So we got pretty far away from Milo, to then circle back to The Soze Agency via EMILY's List... Let's get back to Milo again:

Again on the subject of shillfarms and recalling "The Online Gamer"; Scientology. Also the connection that Milo and Bannon have to IGE & DEN via Soros/The Soze Agency.

"Playing all sides against each other"

Refer back to comment 8/20 and also recall:

DEN produced and distributed a number of programs aimed at specific young male demographics. That included Chad's World, which targeted gay viewers and included Seann William Scott in the cast, Tales from the Eastside, which targeted Latinos, The Chang Gang, which target Asians, Redemption High which starred Judge Reinhold and targeted Christians, Frat Ratz, which target frat boys, and Fear of a Punk Planet, which target punks, included Joe Escalante from The Vandals in the cast, and shared a name with the band's 1990 album.[17][2]

Seann William Scott: put a pin in that for now.

18:

Viewer discretion advised

Chad's World

LGBT issues

While Yiannopoulos is openly gay, he has stated "Gay Rights Have Made Us Dumber" and that gays should "get back in the closet".[77] He has described being gay as "aberrant" and "a lifestyle choice guaranteed to bring [gay people] pain and unhappiness."[78]

During an interview with Joe Rogan, in 2015, Yiannopoulos said that 'If I could choose, I wouldn’t be a homosexual'. Asked if he would be willing to cure himself of homosexuality, if such a thing was ever invented, Yiannopoulos replied “Well, it would be career suicide, but I probably would, yeah”.[79][80]

In 2017 he criticised Pope Francis for his liberalism in areas such as reaching out to gay people, adding that the best media advice he could give to Francis would be “stop talking.” In the interview he reiterated his belief that homosexuality is a sin and condemned those (including clergy) who sought to change Church dogma on the issue.[81]

Kevin D. Williamson in the National Review argued that "Milo Yiannopoulos of Breitbart London has done more to put homosexual camp in the service of right-wing authoritarianism than any man has since the fellows at Hugo Boss sewed all those nifty SS uniforms."[82]

Feminism, freedom of speech and the "No Platform" policy

Yiannopoulos and feminist Julie Bindel were scheduled to participate in October 2015 in the University of Manchester Free Speech and Secular Society's debate "From liberation to censorship: does modern feminism have a problem with free speech?". However, the Students' Union banned first Bindel, then also Yiannopoulos.[83] The Union cited Bindel's comments on transgender women and Yiannopoulos' opinions on rape culture and stated that both breached the Union's safe-space policy.[84][85]

Yiannopoulos was scheduled to talk at Bristol University the following month.[86] After protesters attempted to have him banned from the university, the event became a debate between Yiannopoulos and The Daily Telegraph blogger and feminist Rebecca Reid.[87]~~

~~In January 2018, Yiannopoulos reported a fictitious news story, written by a spoof news-site, as being true. The article claimed that an English High Court had ruled that the National Health Service was legally obliged to offer cervical smear tests to men. Unaware that the story of was made up, Yiannopoulos argued that the story exemplified the thinking of those living in 'feminist clown world'. Before reading out the article verbatim, Yiannopoulos insisted that he had researched the story and promised that 'this is real, I haven't just made this up'.[91][92]

Speaking a week later, Yiannopoulos stood by his comments, and stated that 'I got in trouble by the way for reading out a satire piece as real news, expect it was real news, just from a different month ... [people] have been harassing me on my Facebook Page, but they are wrong'.[93]

With the above in mind, I can't help but wonder about Milo's coverage of "#Gamergate", along with the origins...

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Gamergate

Yiannopoulos played a role in early news coverage of the Gamergate controversy, criticising what he saw as the politicisation of video game culture by "an army of sociopathic feminist programmers and campaigners, abetted by achingly politically correct American tech bloggers."[48][49] In December 2014, he announced he was working on a book about Gamergate.[50]

As part of his coverage of Gamergate, he published correspondence from GameJournoPros, a private mailing list used by video game journalists to discuss industry related topics.[51][52] Yiannopoulos said that the list was evidence that journalists were colluding to offer negative coverage of Gamergate.[citation needed]

Kyle Orland, the creator of the list, responded to the leak on Ars Technica. Orland disputed the claim that the list suggested collusion among journalists, but said that he had written a message saying several things that he later regretted.[53] Carter Dotson of pocketgamer.biz said that the list was indicative of an echo chamber effect in the gaming press.[54]

During the controversy, Yiannopoulos said that he received a syringe filled with an unknown substance through the post,[55][56] as well as a dead animal.

In May 2015, a meetup in Washington D.C. for supporters of Gamergate arranged by Yiannopoulos and Christina Hoff Sommers was targeted by a bomb threat made over Twitter, according to the local police responding to information supplied by the FBI.[57] Similarly, three months later in August 2015, an event at the Koubek Center in Miami sponsored by the Society of Professional Journalists was targeted by bomb threats, forcing the evacuation of the building and the suspension of a panel with Yiannopoulos and Sommers.[58][59][60][61]

Continued ahead in comment 17...