Comments on: Malcolm Turnbull will stick with marriage equality plebiscite if leadership challenge successful

By: Harlan92

Harlan92 — Tue, 15 Sep 2015 05:08:09 +0000

In reply to Sam. The LGBT community doesn't want Australians cut from the same cloth as Cory Bernadi and Eric Abetz to come out from the woodwork spewing all kinds of vile homophobic nonsense that will achieve nothing but place an already at risk group - LGBT youths - at even greater risk of self harm. We don't have a direct vote on environmental policy, going to war or raising taxes. Why this?

By: Lauren

Lauren — Tue, 15 Sep 2015 05:05:48 +0000

The LGBT community and other people who support equal marriage are not afraid of a plebiscite, it’s just that we see it for what it is – an expensive, non-binding opinion poll. And a stalling tactic! They should settle this in parliament. We already know how people feel.

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 15 Sep 2015 00:30:46 +0000

Fascinating Turnbull had no plebiscite, no people’s choice for him! Surely what is good for the goose is good for the gander? Not if you’re in team Liberal it seems. Hypocrite politicians, here we go again. When some have come down from the enormous high ofTony Abbott copping a thumping, they can watch the first press conference of our dear new leader. Turnbull took two questions from a WA journo and ignored the equality question. Conservative Christian Scott Morrison and his congregation in the LNP, have signed up to Turnbull with a particular string attached that Turnbull kick the equality can into the land of the Never Never. This slippery deal to destroy the hopes of hundreds of thousands of Australians, and allow hate speech all the way through a plebiscite, will cost the lives of some doing it tough. It is Grim Reaper politics and it is ugly. In the UK for instance, there was a huge increase in hate crimes, while the push for equality in the law moved through parliament. We have the same music coming out of team Liberal, just a different conductor. That is all that has changed as far as our push for equality goes. Marriage Apartheid is to stay under the Turnbull Morrison deal. Perhaps what this really shows though, is how big Turnbull’s political bubble actually is. Take for example the narrative spruiked by the chap about exciting times. When Gillard took power, the narrative was she was a dishonest woman, her father died of shame and all that ugly talk. I was no fan of Gillard, but the misogyny from the LNP here is breathtaking and so is the hypocrisy.

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 14 Sep 2015 22:44:47 +0000

Why is the LGBT community afraid of a plebiscite? Do they think the majority of people would vote against it? It’s the people who should have a say on the matter not the pollies.

By: Bill

Bill — Mon, 14 Sep 2015 08:38:51 +0000

Turnbull is another ego maniac who has promised to fuck over GLBTI people in return for being called Prime Minister. It is a shame this seems to be a requirement for the keys to the lodge.