Comments on: ‘Report-back not a waste’: Bandt /news/%e2%80%98report-back-not-a-waste%e2%80%99-bandt/60456 Setting Australia’s LGBTI agenda since 1979 Tue, 30 Aug 2011 12:39:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 By: Adrian /news/%e2%80%98report-back-not-a-waste%e2%80%99-bandt/60456#comment-77774 Tue, 30 Aug 2011 12:39:06 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=60456#comment-77774 The request for MPs to canvas their electorates was a massive step forward to the gay community even though it doesn’t look like that on the surface. Our leaders are not the moral voice of Australians. Australians are the moral voice of Australians and it is through such awareness raising that more and more people are talking about the idea. I live in north QLD and although the member for Dawson dodged asking constituents about gay marriage directly (by sending out a survey requesting people to list 4 issues that concerned them most) he did indirectly bring the debate to people’s attention by telling the papers how little support there was for it in the community. In response to his lack of representation a Facebook page was created called “I live in Mackay and I support Same-Sex Marriage.” Within a few days the page, informing people to write to Mr Christensen, has hundreds of “likes” (members). As they say a lot up here, “it’s all good.”

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By: Dave /news/%e2%80%98report-back-not-a-waste%e2%80%99-bandt/60456#comment-77754 Tue, 30 Aug 2011 08:07:10 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=60456#comment-77754 The debate was never scientific, the survey results were not open to the public. But it was a great device to keep the debate going and it certainly did get people thinking about equality.

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