Comments on: Liberal Senator Dean Smith drafts marriage bill to debate this year /news/national-news/marriage-equality-resolved-end-year-smith/159867 Setting Australia’s LGBTI agenda since 1979 Tue, 11 Jul 2017 06:25:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 By: Robert McCormick /news/national-news/marriage-equality-resolved-end-year-smith/159867#comment-597353 Tue, 11 Jul 2017 06:25:21 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=159867#comment-597353 And about time too!
Isn’t it time the Coalition stopped this nonsense about fulfilling Tony Abbott’s “Designed to Fail” silly Plebiscite?
The entire concept was, like everything Tony Abbott did and is doing, a massive Confidence Trick, a Scam.
He like all of us should know, knows full well that even if such a Plebiscite passed with approval by 100% of Voters NO Government is required to pay the slightest bit of attention to it as Plebiscites are nothing more than “Surveys” and the results are NOT Binding on any Government.
The Senate, thanks to the ALP, have refused to pass the Legislation setting up this con-job. That should be the end of this con-job altogether.
Turnbull should stop this nonsense about this Plebiscite.
He should simply bring on the Legislation and give all MPs & Senators a Free Vote on the issue. Should any of them vote against Equality then in 2019 we can take our revenge and toss’em out!
It was an Abbott Promise and we all know what his promises were worth, don’t we?.
At least with the Libs their politicians are allowed, indeed they are encouraged, to speak out and bring forward Private Member’s Bills without fear of being thrown out of the Party as happens in the ALP if one of their politicians goes against Party Policy.
Let’s get this over and done with. Tony Abbott kept none of his promises. Malcolm Turnbull is under No Obligation to keep any of Abbott’s false promises.

]]> By: Dave /news/national-news/marriage-equality-resolved-end-year-smith/159867#comment-597335 Mon, 10 Jul 2017 02:22:21 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=159867#comment-597335 Interesting stuff, it seems contrary to earlier reports that Chris Pyne’s indiscreet comments to moderate Liberals hasn’t sabotaged Dean Smith and Trent Zimmerman as feared. Only a few Libs would have to cross the floor for the right wingers to be defeated and for Australia to bring itself up to standard as far as recognising civil liberties is concerned. I really don’t think Turnbull wants this issue to still be around come the next election, and in any case I think he’d be happy to include marriage equality on his list of achievements as PM (even though he pretends to be unenthusiastic to shut up Andrew Bolt).

That said, I wonder how crossbench senator David Leyonhjelm will vote given that his new besty (or perhaps his new nemesis?) Mark Latham appears to have tied the Liberal Democrats to opposing marriage equality. Leyonhjelm has been on side before, but he doesn’t seem to have disagreed with Latham’s recent comments and Latham presumably is still a front-runner to be preselected for office by the LDP.

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