Peter Dutton, the leader of Australia’s right-leaning opposition party, has stood by embattled Liberal Party vice-president Teena McQueen, saying she shouldn’t resign in the wake of controversial comments she made.
McQueen discussed the future of what is historically considered one of Australia’s biggest conservative parties at CPAC Australia last weekend.
She put a positive spin on the Liberal Party’s federal election loss in May, saying it meant some of the party’s “lefties” could be replaced by “good conservative candidates.”
“The good thing about the last federal election is a lot of those lefties are gone—we should rejoice in that,” McQueen said….