NSW State Premier Faces Spill Over Government’s Abortion Bill

NSW State Premier Faces Spill Over Government’s Abortion Bill
NSW Premiere Gladys Berejiklian (C) celebrates her win at the Sofitel Wentworth on March 23, 2019 in Sydney, Australia. Brook Mitchell/Getty Images
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Three Liberal MPs in the Australian state of New South Wales are planning to move a spill motion against Premier Gladys Berejiklian over the handling of the bill to decriminalise abortions past 20 weeks of pregnancy.

In a joint statement issued on Monday night, state MPs Tanya Davies, Lou Amato, and Matthew Mason-Cox said they had consistently requested that the premier urgently intervene and restore proper process on the bill.

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