Comments on: Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to push plebiscite back to February 2017

By: Jan

Jan — Mon, 22 Aug 2016 23:12:08 +0000

I sort of lost interest in voting in the plebiscite. I married in New Zealand, and the plebiscite for us is apartheid. I am not participating in a rigged plebiscite where the majority of LNP members said they will ignore the vote. Violence was part of the Irish experience for many, but here in Oz not only does Turnbull give 15 million to hate groups so they bus nutters in at polling booths, but he changed the wording. If the marriage has to be an opinion poll where is the plebiscite for Malcolm and Lucy? Now people are thinking about the plebiscite it is another mess, like Turnbull’s copper NBN that a future leader will have to fix.

By: Jane

Jane — Mon, 22 Aug 2016 12:00:59 +0000

Howard didn’t need a plebiscite to write his discriminatory bit of caustic wording into law…This, is b*llsh*t.

Equality only has ONE definition.

It’s 2016, not 1816.

Find your spine, Turdball.

By: Robert McCormick

Robert McCormick — Mon, 22 Aug 2016 06:13:42 +0000

Our politicians rely on advice from various Government Departments and Agencies. The Australian Electoral Commission has advised Malcolm Turnbull that it does not think it can be ready in time to get this absurd, non-binding, $160+ millions, absurd plebiscite in place before the end of the year. Therefore the next best date is February 2017. Don’t forget our oh-so-badly-paid politicians will probably close up shop about the middle of October 2016 and re-open in mid-February 2017 during which time most of them will swan off on Tax-payer-funded junkets to the fleshpots of the world with their parasitic partners and children in tow.
No-one seems to want this absurd vote.
Cancel it and let our politicians – remember them? They are the people we PAY to run the country and do what is best for Australia and us. Given that changing the Australian Marriage Act ( a Secular Act which does not impinge on the Rights of any Religion to refuse to marry Same Gender people in their Churches, Temples, Synagogues, Mosques etc.)has Bi-partisan support and with the extra support of The Greens in both houses, just as the homophobic John Howard altered the Australian Marriage Act with the bi-partisan support of the ALP so, too, can Malcolm Turnbull alter it and get it through both the Reps and the Senate.
Malcolm, Bill, extract the digits and get on with the job. It is what we pay you to do.