Comments on: South Australia apologises to the LGBTI community

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 06 Dec 2016 22:38:27 +0000

So true Robert 14 years of nothing while Labor was in state government. Trans* Birth Certificate Bill and the Relationship Register Bill passed into law credit to you South Australian Government. However still long waiting for the surrogacy/IVF and adoption bills to pass the upper house of South Australia. These two bills might just fail because of “conscience votes” that means votes are not a guarantee. Still long waiting for South Australia to abolish the gay panic defence as well.

By: Robert McCormick

Robert McCormick — Fri, 02 Dec 2016 06:28:34 +0000

Jay Weatherill has been a Member od the SA Parliament since 2002. He has been a Minister in the State ALP Government of SA since the ALP won in 2002. He has been the Premier since 2011.
And just what did Jay do for my LGBTIQ Community of SA, or indeed Australia,, during the past 14 long years?
The Answer is very, very simple:.
He did Nothing.
He knows that there is a State Election in just 15 months time. His pathetic excuse for a wasteful, spendthrift, inefficient alleged “Government is under one of the deepest, darkest clouds any State or Federal Government has ever been.
Weatherill has completely Failed the Children of SA. Remember he was, before he became Premier, the Minister whose portfolio covered Child Protection. He failed. Every Minister and CEO he has appointed to Child Protection has been a complete Failure. He spent untold millions re-naming his department, hiring a new CEO only to have them allow at least 11 staff who had been “Red-Carded” by the Royal Commission into Child Sex Abuse to continue in work.
As I say, it is just 15 months until the 2018 State Election so Weatherill is now scrambling to attract as many votes as he can to survive. Having alienated almost the entire Voting Population of SA he suddenly discovers the LGBTIQ Community so he trots out his insincere, hypocritical apology. He has had 4 State Elections over the last 14 years to make that apology.
Don’t believe a word of it.

By: Jane

Jane — Fri, 02 Dec 2016 06:08:16 +0000

“When our laws discriminate against a particular group of people, it sends a message that this prejudice written into law justifies treating people differently in our day to day lives. Such laws don’t affect only LGBTI communities, they diminish our society as a whole.

They diminish us by saying effectively there are certain people who deserve to be treated differently – whose relationships are worth less, whose families should not exist, and who are not entitled to the same fundamental rights as their neighbour.

We should be building a safer, fairer future for the next generation of children….we should ensure that our laws apply equally…”.

THANK YOU, Premier Weatherill !