Comments on: Members vote to not invite PM Malcolm Turnbull to Mardi Gras

By: Craig

Craig — Sun, 20 Nov 2016 07:55:24 +0000

Malcolm Turnbull is much worse than Donald Trump, he should be banned from everything – including the shambles of the LNP government!

By: jackalison

jackalison — Tue, 15 Nov 2016 06:06:24 +0000

well, for the longest time this slimy smarmy snake oil merchant has been climbing the greasy pole on the hopes and aspirations of those he claims to support. Finally, folks are waking to the fact that Malcolm cares about MAlcolm , nobody else.

By: Ken

Ken — Tue, 15 Nov 2016 03:10:37 +0000

Mardigras is kind of irrelevant to the lives of most BIGLT people any way, it sounds to me like ‘evangelical socialists’ have infiltrated the organisation as is sadly too frequent and are playing their usual partisan oh so last century politics, if Mardigras really was a BIGLT community based organisation it would not be playing partisan shoot your self in the foot politics this way, which just goes to high light BIGLT self appointed representative groups are truly ‘unrepresentative swill’ a rag tag oligargy of blow-hards

By: Brenty

Brenty — Tue, 15 Nov 2016 01:27:00 +0000

Well in that case, the whole of the Australian Christian Lobby should be invited along with Turnbull?

By: Gregory Morrison

Gregory Morrison — Tue, 15 Nov 2016 00:53:41 +0000

Pathetic … say no more about Mardi Gras organisation. In my lifetime it has been boom and bust so many times. It gets hijacked. Yet again, a silly move which shows the political immaturity of the entire organisation. So much for tolerance and inclusion.

By: LAURENCE

LAURENCE — Mon, 14 Nov 2016 05:31:52 +0000

how absolutely childish of you as to not invite the Prime minister of our country ,u should be ashamed of yourselves ,,, what sort of example is that ,
WHAT HAPPENED TO TOLERANCE ,,,

By: Robert McCormick

Robert McCormick — Mon, 14 Nov 2016 05:22:15 +0000

How ridiculous can any group possibly get? No-one, other than Tony Abbott and his fellow bigots wanted the Plebiscite. Abbott set it up as a sop to the General Public knowing that whatever the outcome- even in the unlikely event that it got a 100% YES Vote – if he had still been PM he would simply have been able to ignore it for Plebiscites are Not Binding on Any Government. Malcolm was locked in between a rock and the Devils on Ultra-Right wing of the Coalition: The Bigots, the Homophobes, plus of course the neo-nazis in the Senate both within the Liberals, Nationals and One Nation. That the legislation was defeated – with the help of the ALP, has been manna from Heaven for Malcolm for he was only fulfilling a Promise made to the Australian People by the then Government-of-the-Day. Just think what the outcry would have been if he had not persisted.
He now has to wait until the next Federal Election, which he has to win handsomely, and then he will be able to change the Australian Marriage Act by a Vote in the Parliament. A Vote almost sure to pass both houses because he would have the support of the ALP Opposition which would negate all the others. The Mardi Gras lot are simply burying their heads in the sand of stupidity.

By: Ruxxy

Ruxxy — Mon, 14 Nov 2016 04:32:35 +0000

I’m embarrassed. Those who voted for this make the community look childish and petulant. All it has done is feed those who hate us. You don’t get anywhere by acting like this – in fact you’ve probably done the cause more harm. Thanks for nothing!

By: Lorentz Lossius

Lorentz Lossius — Sun, 13 Nov 2016 22:31:21 +0000

The PM is is not a dictator but a juggler of many competing balls (ghastly pun avoidable, but what the hell). And being gay is not about being politically orthodox, it’s about, well, being human. My gut feeling is that he should still be invited. Shunning him is self-righteous, despite the very real pain of not getting what is our due, when we want it. It will happen in Australia.

By: David Byles

David Byles — Sat, 12 Nov 2016 22:29:40 +0000

How wrong is this? The parade is about being inclusive. As a group of people who have experienced exclusion we should know better.