Comments on: Abbott wants anti-LGBTI campaigning to continue after the postal survey

By: Trevor

Trevor — Tue, 07 Nov 2017 08:13:15 +0000

tony abbott = Bigoted FOOL

By: Cate Archer

Cate Archer — Mon, 06 Nov 2017 12:40:22 +0000

In reply to Aristides G.. I don't like Tony, and I don't much care for you either.

By: Tante

Tante — Mon, 06 Nov 2017 10:12:29 +0000

I think the hard thing that is not getting across here is everyone should have the opportunity to have a voice, whether it is yay or nay.

Where has freedom of choice gone? If you say no, you are slandered. If yes, it’s all hunky dory.

We all have a right to our own ideology regardless of our choice made. It shouldn’t be a witch hunt for either side just because it’s now what others like!

By: NickDavisGB

NickDavisGB — Sat, 04 Nov 2017 11:53:59 +0000

#MakeChurchesPayTax

By: Robert McCormick

Robert McCormick — Fri, 03 Nov 2017 23:58:08 +0000

I don’t know about what others have sensed but I sense that all the vitriol, the hatred, the loathing, the bigotry has been emanating from arch-homophobes like Tony Abbott, Erich Abetz, Kevin Andrews, Cory Bernardi , the ACL and their mates – all of whom preach the very antithesis of what Jesus taught. This has nothing to do with Freedom of Religion – even today under the current Secular Australian Marriage Act religious businesses such as the Roman Catholic Church, the Anglican Church and other self-style “Christian” organisations can refuse to marry some people. They can, and do, refuse to marry people who have been divorced. That is Discrimination isn’t it?.
This campaign led by Tony Abbott is nothing more than sheer homophobia. They all simply Loathe Homosexuals. Their hatred is palpable and, from experience, that hatred stems from just one thing: FEAR. Fear that under all that bluster that they might just be latent homosexuals.

By: Peter Davis

Peter Davis — Fri, 03 Nov 2017 12:20:28 +0000

Abbott is such a disgusting creature.
Reminds me of Rex Mossop and Fred Nile 30- 40 years ago ranting against gays and showing total lack of decency or understanding of basic human rights for gays or women.
Fred Nile I assume will invite Abbott to a prayer-fest to implore their heavenly bigot to pee on 40th Mardi Gras parade.

By: Aristides G.

Aristides G. — Fri, 03 Nov 2017 08:55:54 +0000

Even if you don’t like Tony; it’s sensible to vote no in the SSM survey (even the term is confusing: talking of sex when gender is the volatile and challenging category).

By: margaret handasyde

margaret handasyde — Fri, 03 Nov 2017 08:50:08 +0000

Apart from Shelton/Nile/Abetz, who does Abbott think will be joining him?. Abbott has burnt so many bridges and seems to live in a delusion of his own importance. It’s entirely possible that Warringah won’t be returning him after the next election. He then looses his current status at which point he’s just another bigot. He will never be a revered ex PM. Equally , I suspect Australia is not quite fertile territory for another ADF.

By: Geoff Whitwell

Geoff Whitwell — Fri, 03 Nov 2017 08:02:59 +0000

Tony Abbot is irrelevant. Hopefully his own electorate will ensure his demise at the next election. Even on this issue he should be representing those who put him in parliament not his own misguided agenda. I believe I’m correct in saying that his own electorate in pols has a very high yes vote fo SSM. Hopefully he will go in the same way John Howard did now that voters can see how far removed he is from current thinking.

By: Helen Barton

Helen Barton — Fri, 03 Nov 2017 06:11:37 +0000

Time to get this bigotted prick voted out of his seat. I’d love to see him lose to a transgender woman. Maybe we should ask Cate McGregor to run against him.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 03 Nov 2017 03:20:16 +0000

In reply to Dave. Umm, just replying to myself, that's probably fairly defamatory and may be best going unpublished on your magnificent website! Sorry! Tony Abbott just has this effect on me!

By: Richard Kennedy

Richard Kennedy — Fri, 03 Nov 2017 03:01:25 +0000

Considering over 30k attended the Marriage Equality Rally and only 12 (Twelve) attended the ‘Straight Lives Matter’ Rally’, I think that he is kidding himself. Besides, if the Vote is Yes, then its Yes. Game over, Tony.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 03 Nov 2017 00:48:14 +0000

Yeah, we’re going to keep campaigning too Tony Abbott.

We’re sick of the institutional abuse committed by the institutions you protect. You’ve shown us the way! Thanks to you, Catholics who protect paedophiles or victimise their victims (eg sending legal letters which falsely tell victims they can’t discuss their abuse as happened in Wagga Wagga just last year) are headed for a world of pain. We’re going to campaign against taxpayer funded organisations who discriminate against same sex marriage, as Catholic Archbishop Dennis Hart has promised to do.

And we’re saving the best until last. We’re demanding a federal inquiry into why Tony Abbott failed to declare on his Prime Ministerial Register of Interests that his daughter was given a $60,000 “scholarship” to study free at a private college when no other students were able to apply (they were told the college has no scholarships) and the only reason she got it was because she was the PM’s daughter, with the demand that you repay the lot.

There are lots of campaigns Tony. You have yours, we’ll have ours, let’s see who’s laughing at the end of the day.

By: Tom Mooney

Tom Mooney — Fri, 03 Nov 2017 00:44:14 +0000

Poor Tony, the Judeo-Christian ethic keeps undermining itself.