Comments on: Labor hopeful Luke Creasey withdraws candidacy over ‘awful’ social media posts /news/national-news/labor-hopeful-luke-creasey-withdraws-candidacy-over-awful-social-media-posts/181612 Setting Australia’s LGBTI agenda since 1979 Mon, 06 May 2019 02:10:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 By: Dave /news/national-news/labor-hopeful-luke-creasey-withdraws-candidacy-over-awful-social-media-posts/181612#comment-616923 Mon, 06 May 2019 02:10:53 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=181612#comment-616923 Joking around on Facebook or other social media is vastly different to joking around with friends at a bar or in someone’s kitchen. Facebook “comments” are published opinions, comments made verbally in private company are legally speaking vastly different things. It’s taken some folks a very long time to realise how different.

So glad as a Gen-Xer that social media was not a thing during my youth or I’d have a lot more to be embarrassed about now.

]]> By: Robert McCormick /news/national-news/labor-hopeful-luke-creasey-withdraws-candidacy-over-awful-social-media-posts/181612#comment-616809 Sat, 04 May 2019 01:37:13 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=181612#comment-616809 No apologies but surely this candidate as a member of the GLBTIQ Community, which despite laws etc. is still discriminated against and vilified would have had more sense.
It is said he made some of his stupid remarks when he was “just 18 years old.” So what? At that age he is considered to be an Adult and have the sense to think before he opened his mouth.
Just as we need equality of Gender in all of our parliaments we also need equality of representation of the GLBTIQ Community in those parliaments as well.
This silly young man has set the process back.

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