To their credit, her Liberal colleagues seem to have deserted her on this one, Amanda Vanstone and Jackie Kelly among others.

Danna, you will remember (if you’re in Australia reading this), was the proponent for a replica of the Gallipoli battlefield site in Turkey to be constructed on the Mornington Peninsula, to save veterans and other Australians commemorating our war sacrifices having to go all the way to the real Gallipoli. This was widely derided as the “Gallipoli theme park”. Her colleagues dumped her like a hot potato on this, too.

Prior to that, she was Minister for Veterans’ Affairs, a position from which she was dumped at the first opportunity.

Actually, I sort of think she has a point about population changes over time. I’ve said for a while that many social problems, crime etc are likely to grow over time, because when you think about it, who are the biggest breeders? Not well-to-do middle class professionals, thats for sure. Educated professionals are having maybe a couple of kids. Bogans are breeding faster, with all sorts of family variations, having more kids than most of us. Many of these children will be raised in troubled environments by parents with poor parenting skills, and lack of resources. You already see families with multiple generations of welfare dependency - and continuing to breed more of their own. I think the sort of environments, attitudes etc that led to things like the Macquarie Fields and Cronulla disturbances in Sydney over the last year or so are the fastest growing parts of our community. Thats a bit scary, if you ask me.