australia is tearing itself apart over same-sex marriage

I have an ABN and an untidy house, am tempted to get an intern or two

work them to death, keep the benefits, buy a house

I have an ABN and an untidy house, am tempted to get an intern or two

― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Thursday, 13 July 2017 8:09 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Genius, and there's me paying for a cat sitter whilst I'm away.

Oh ffs, Ludlam was actually one of the good ones

if tony abbott gets booted for being half-english, it will all have been worth it. well almost.

TBF he should be booted for being a prick, but unfortunate he represents warringah

can't wait to get rid of the head of state on that 'citizen of another country' technicality

pato m8 the king and queen of moomba come under separate rules

now our braindead government is pushing for a voluntary public vote conducted through the post

australia the australian government is tearing itself apart over same-sex marriage

this week has been astonishing. one backbencher says "i'll cross the floor to make this happen", a powerbroking bigot says "ohhhh no you don't, here's a threat to your job/power/preselection if you even fucking dare", repeat like a hundred times. and a new batch of threats that the prime minister will be torn down if he even dares to treat gay people like human beings. OVER FUCKING NOTHING.

Good luck Australia. Haven't been paying close attention w/our upcoming election, but is the republicanism issue getting tied up w/this as well?

it is in that tony abbott (you remember, the guy who invented the marriage plebiscite) thinks a public vote on becoming a republic would be "an attack on australia's way of life"

so kicking all gay people in the face is fine but voting on a republic is fucking disgusting

not that he's a vengeful fucking bigot or anything

it gets worse from tone: http://www.news.com.au/national/politics/why-tony-abbott-wont-back-gay-marriage-bill-marriage-protects-women-and-children/news-story/eacc389ec0e02c53e5dd59275164d69d

then he had a go at the homeless people living on the streets in sydney

thank u onion boy for your hot takes

repulsive little shitstain
oops that was out loud, sorry all

turnbull is calling a special party room meeting on monday to ???????

i really really really really hope the bigots throw punches/hurl chairs in the meeting, just so the country can see how desperately bigoted they are

Why does anyone still give Abott airtime? he isnt the fecking PM anymore, he should learn his place.

he will only learn his proper place when he is dead

And we all line up to piss on his grave

apple-cheeked kevin rudd, with his pruned words and licked lips, was on cnn earlier, not discussing trump's part in the leaked call transcript as they hoped but instead blandly but vengefully sticking it to turnbull. it was quite the standard performance.

Found Kevin Rudd in an old Raymond Briggs children's book I was reading to my daughter

https://cdn.lrb.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/grocers-window.jpg

blandly but vengefully sticking it to turnbull. it was quite the standard performance.

he is indeed doggedly and unrelentingly there

xp wow that's eerie

lol it's really him
he has the pink look of a boy of yore whose mother has rubbed his face clean with a hanky and smoothed his hair down with spittle.

estela would you kindly take up the position of kevin rudd's official biographer

btw i love how the libs/nats are all "whyyyy are we still talking about this whyyyy" when it's 100% their fault we're still talking about this

Ironically "special party room" is the gayest thing anyone will write on the internet today.

what about... back-door attempt

ooh err shoppie missus

I did like a suggestion in the Twittersphere of what the leaked Trump call would have been like with Tone/Keating/any Prime Minister that had some sort of personality, even if it was 'eats onions with skin on and has weird Rhodes-esque thoughts.'

Is this heading for a referendum to legalise/enshrine or what's going on?

last year parliament blocked the plebiscite and kicked it out because it's fucking bollocks.

what's happened now is that a few government backbenchers have lost their shit and said let's just change the law and get this done. the bigots who run the govt have responded by shitting their pants in public, so on monday they're all having a party meeting to sort this out.

btw unlike ireland we can't have a referendum because marriage isn't defined in our constitution. it's all in a standard law that parliament can modify on its own. our (unnecessary) public vote's only being championed by bigots.

btw i hope i didn't come across condescending, the bigots have contrived such a complicated web of bullshit that it can be difficult to get to the truth

I read an article, maybe linked here about the shoppies being a catholic union and being a bunch of bastards more likely to side with employers than their members.

Not condescending at all in fact I'm now terrifically confused tbh

yeah joe de bruyn's a fuckhead xp

Not condescending at all in fact I'm now terrifically confused tbh

― jk rowling obituary thread (darraghmac), Saturday, 5 August 2017 11:39 (fifty-six seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the bigots want that. currently a portion of the country's running around yelling things like "DEMOCRACY" and "LET ME HAVE MY SAY" because (a) they think the plebiscite is binding (it's not, it's a toothless opinion poll) and (b) they think farming equality out to a fucking vox pop is somehow how democracy works.

the truth is there's no need for a public vote on this. there's no precedent for it in australia's history. it's just all lies.

Would you anticipate a positive result from any such?

nah. our bigots are so insanely bigoted that they're genuinely destroying their own government just to stop it. the whole country is in shock atm.

one of the nutbags has started pushing for a postal vote, which... i just

i mean the law's not even a religious law, church and state are reasonably well separated here

our bigots are so insanely bigoted that they're genuinely destroying their own government just to stop it.

sorry, i should expand on this: a few in govt have already said they'll ignore a plebiscite result they don't like, and the prime minister gave them permission to do that. so if all their tactics, all their hate campaigning, all their vote rigging fails and equality wins, they'll vote against it in parliament anyway.

the way we'll get a positive result is by a change of government, most likely 2019. the opposition will straight-up do equality within a couple of months.

That was the article, how do the shoppies even get to be part of the labour movement?

australian labor's always been closer to unions. that works out well when the unions are doing objectively good things, not so much when joe de gay-panic abuses his position to bash his own members and hijack government policy.

me, I suspect that next blue sky sesh from the right of the liberal party is going to give us the grand idea of having a deciding all this with a poll on the australian's website (requires subscription to the australian)

thing is i wouldn't be at all surprised if they proposed that

btw dean smith was super impressive (for a Liberal) on insiders this morning

Didn't soil himself and then proposition the host before falling out of his chair? Can't be a real Liberal.

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