Peter Dutton dumps Liberal candidate over comments about women

Padraig Collins - DailyMail - 06/04
The Liberal candidate for the NSW seat of Whitlam had called for all women to be removed from frontline roles in the Australian Defence Force.

Peter Dutton has dumped a Liberal candidate over his previous comments about women less than a month out the federal election.

Benjamin Britton, who was running for the Liberals in the NSW seat of Whitlam south of Sydney, called for all women to be removed from frontline roles in the Australian Defence Force (ADF).  

Speaking on a right-wing podcast last August, Mr Britton said the ADF 'need to remove females from combat corps' in order to 'fix' our military.

He said 'diversity and equity quotas, Marxist ideology and woke ideologies' were to blame for weakening Australia's defence.

Speaking to podcaster Joel Jammal, Mr Britton, who previously served in the Australian Army, said the ADF had become burdened with diversity and equity quotas and other 'bureaucratic nonsense'.

'If we're to fix our defence force, unfortunately ...
[Short citation of 8% of the original article]