Bridget Archer, MHR for Bass, speaks to the House of Representatives on 2 December 2020.
Media release – Senator Helen Polley, Senator for Tasmania, 3 December 2020
The Member for Bass is a Fraud
Today Senator Helen Polley condemned the Liberal Member for Bass, Bridget Archer for not voting against the Government’s cashless debit card legislation in the House of Representatives last night.
“Bridget Archer wants to have her cake and eat it to and I think the people of Bass will see right through her fraudulent stunt, because that is what it was, a stunt.”
“Parliamentarians go to Parliament to vote, Ms Archer could have exercised that vote to send a message to the Government and her community that she is not in favour of the cashless welfare card but she didn’t exercise that vote.”
What is the point of being an elected member of Parliament and not exercising your vote.
“So I ask, what is the point of Bridget Archer being the Member for Bass if she doesn’t have the backbone to stand up and vote for what she believes in?
Ms Archer will return to her community and try and argue that she stood up for what she believed in and she can tell people that she doesn’t believe in the cashless welfare card but that is a fraud. Ms Archer does believe in the cashless welfare card because she voted for it. That is the cold hard truth.
