Comments on: Labor and Greens spend week going between blocking and supporting marriage equality

By: Jenifer

Jenifer — Wed, 23 Mar 2016 14:51:48 +0000

You know there is something wrong with Australia, when the parliament can pass a bipartisan law unanimously on medical cannabis, but struggle and find difficulties to get a simple majority to pass a simple law on marriage equality!

By: Equality Now!

Equality Now! — Wed, 23 Mar 2016 05:44:40 +0000

I welcome the announcement, let’s have a double dissolution national election! It is actually overdue time for a good clean out of bigots and homophobes from both houses of parliament! We all know that marriage equality is not possible in Australia, until at least 2019! That is still 2 elections away! Time for dead wood to be burned in the paddocks! Time for some real change for once! Adoption laws in SA, NT and QLD are still under government review and still do not allow same-sex couples the right to adopt children. NT, SA and WA still have no civil union or relationship register scheme set up yet either! If we can not get things done at a federal level, lets get them done at a state or territory level then!

By: Shane

Shane — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 12:11:24 +0000

This is a joke, the Senate should be abolished! It is much easier to pass legislation with just one house, just like New Zeland next door! I am embarrassed to be Australian!

By: John McCormack

John McCormack — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 04:54:54 +0000

If you think that the Greens voted against Marriage Equality then sadly you have been hoodwinked by the Labor machine who WITH the Liberals voted against Marriage Equality in the Senate last week.

By: Paul of Forbes NSW

Paul of Forbes NSW — Fri, 18 Mar 2016 04:25:12 +0000

In reply to Glen. Lets be realistic here, marriage equality will be allowed in Australia in 2020, after the next 2 elections! I hope the Australian Sex Party (AXP) can get a seat in the Senate! I pick 2020, because we still do not have a majority support of marriage equality in the parliament! We are still 5 votes short in the House of Representatives, but have a majority in the Senate! I do not believe a word the spin media says! Both major parties have abandoned us LGBTI people for years! This week both Labor and the Greens joined forces and turned there back on LGBTI Australians in the Senate, and I will never ever forget it! Liberals doing deals with the Greens in a locked Senate Committee at 2am in the morning is worthy of full scrutiny to the public! I am boycotting the federal election once it is called because Labor, Greens and the Liberal party now all oppose marriage equality! The Liberal party want to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on a prerequisite no one wants and both Labor and the Greens voted against there own policy on marriage equality. I want New Zealand to invade this country tomorrow, so we can have surpluses of budgets, marriage equality, low unemployment rates and just have one house of parliament actually doing there job they were elected to do!

By: Brad

Brad — Thu, 17 Mar 2016 05:12:33 +0000

In reply to Allen. Wow a little too extreme to say the least!

By: Glen

Glen — Thu, 17 Mar 2016 05:07:55 +0000

Australia will have marriage equality, in about 100 years from now!

By: Mark & Steve

Mark & Steve — Thu, 17 Mar 2016 05:04:18 +0000

Fucking Outraged! Been together over 10 years, still waiting!

By: John

John — Thu, 17 Mar 2016 05:01:03 +0000

This is extraordinary to say the least. Australia we are a laughing stock to the western world, we can not pass a simple marriage bill! I am deeply embarrassed to be Australian! I am with Paul of Forbes on this – lets boycott the the federal election this year! So now Liberal, Labor and the Greens oppose marriage equality! This is a joke!

By: Allen

Allen — Thu, 17 Mar 2016 04:54:18 +0000

All politicians are complete cunts, who deserve to die with a bullet to the head!

By: Paul of Forbes NSW

Paul of Forbes NSW — Thu, 17 Mar 2016 04:48:27 +0000

I am boycotting the federal election this year now!