I've actually read in the Daily Telegraph where a certain imam from the Lakemba mosque actually said that Australia is going to be a Muslim nation in 50 years' time, she said.

I didn't believe him at the time but when you actually look at the birthrates and you look at the fact that we are aborting ourselves almost out of existence by a 100,000 abortions every year.

You multiply that by 50 years, that's 5 million potential Australians we won't have here.

Mrs Vale says apart from the morals of the issue, she is concerned about what she says are the implications for Australia's future.

Aside from the imam in question being a loony fundie in his own right and not a reliable source of facts, Vale seems to be plucking figures out of the air. There are no reliable statistics on abortions in Australia. Some states that do have figures, also include miscarriages and still births in those figures, making them useless.

Sad to say, this silly bitch is my local member of parliament. I've actual met and spoken to the woman. As she seemed completely clueless about the drug baron who has his fortress of solitude within a kilometre of her office, has been assaulting the neighbours and is more than likely responsible for the arson at my local shops, I am not surprised that she doesn't seem to have much of a grip on any other facts that are a little further afield.

Jackie Kelly, one of Vale's co-sponsors of the amendment, has distanced herself from her colleague.

I think Danna's on her own on that one, she said.

You've got to laugh when the loony fundies are so determined to scuttle their own boat.

A couple of days later and, even with all her pollie mates pointing out that she's being a prat, Vale has refused to backdown from her stance of stupidity. Amusingly enough, Amanda Vanstone, who has something of an iffy history in being John Howard's lap dog, has mentioned that she may need to have a word in Vale's shell-like.

Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone said she might have a cup of tea with Mrs Vale to explain things to her.

MP raises Islamisation fear in RU486 debate—ABC News Online, 13th February 2006.
MP Vale refuses to back down—The Daily Telegraph, 15th February 2006.