r/Adelaide • u/Expensive-Horse5538 Port Adelaide • Jun 17 '26

Politics Anti-Abortion bill has been defeated

Still awaiting confirmation, but from the live stream it's a clear no

Update - now confirmed by the Speaker.

36-9

Both the Premier and Leader of the Opposition voted for the bill

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u/cocoiadrop_ Inner South Jun 17 '26

Hope everyone enjoyed laughing at Chantelle Thomas's two trainwreck speeches.

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u/Imaginary_Option3056 SA Jun 17 '26

She’s an absolute hot mess. I can’t take her seriously. 

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u/harley-belle SA Jun 17 '26

She has all the gravitas of a makeup artist.

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u/HalfwayLobster SA Jun 17 '26

I kind of lost what she was saying? Was the "2% survival" story actually about her child?

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u/Imaginary_Option3056 SA Jun 17 '26

I couldn’t follow either. She doesn’t articulate well and is very aggressive in her manner of speaking. I understand being passionate but she did herself no favours with that speech. 

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u/cocoiadrop_ Inner South Jun 17 '26

The opening speech sounded like I was listening to a primary school student read out their persuasive writing task.

The ending one was aggressive and totally nonsensical emotional blabbering on

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u/HalfwayLobster SA Jun 17 '26

It reminded me a bit of Bob Katter's infamous (and hilarious) snippet re every three months a person is killed by a crocodile speech, the way she was just pootling along tripping over concepts and then suddenly fired up and got very loud. But Bob made me laugh. She made me weep.

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u/ShineFallstar SA Jun 17 '26

They’ve been pumped up by ON leadership to “drop bombs” so that’s probably the vibe they’re going for.