A recording has surfaced of comments made by Liberal Chisholm candidate, Gladys Liu, appearing to describe LGBT+ issues as “ridiculous rubbish”.
The recording obtained by the ABC comes from an interview reported in the Guardian in 2016 where Ms Liu was asked about the Safe Schools program, where she is quoted responding, “Chinese people come to Australia because they want good … things for the next generation, not to be destroyed - they use the word destroyed - [by] same-sex, transgender, intergender. All this rubbish. To them, they are just ridiculous rubbish”.
Ms Liu has defended her comments as being representative of the Chinese community rather than her own views, saying it was fake news and misrepresented.