Comments on: You’re a friend of mine /opinion/you%e2%80%99re-a-friend-of-mine/57872 Setting Australia’s LGBTI agenda since 1979 Thu, 28 Jul 2011 05:29:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 By: Chris /opinion/you%e2%80%99re-a-friend-of-mine/57872#comment-75788 Thu, 28 Jul 2011 05:29:11 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=57872#comment-75788 Another feel good gab fest. Sorry for the cynicism and I appreciate the work, but how many of these groups do we need? At least the “friendship” in the name is being half honest about it being a whole bunch of nothing.

Having all parties involved should be a dead giveaway that a lot of talk will happen, but actual action is something that no one will agree on. Ok… a bit of state admin might change at BD&M, but no one is going to push for transgender surgery to be on Medicare (like it is in so many other countries)are they?

It just sounds like another way to keep the lobbyists quiet in the eternal hope that something will happen.

]]> By: Jim /opinion/you%e2%80%99re-a-friend-of-mine/57872#comment-75783 Thu, 28 Jul 2011 04:55:33 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=57872#comment-75783 I’m yet to be persuaded about the aims of this ‘friendship’ group (even the name puts me off…) given the initial comments by Warren Entsch concerning his preference to support civil unions rather than marriage equality. I wrote to him and I’m yet to receive a response. Who does he represent? For starters, not anyone who supports marriage equality.

]]> By: Rick Stives /opinion/you%e2%80%99re-a-friend-of-mine/57872#comment-75740 Wed, 27 Jul 2011 11:26:13 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=57872#comment-75740 “…access seemed limited to only those groups with good PR machines, those dealing with the ‘sexy’ issues, or individuals in a financial position with more time to haunt the corridors of power.”

Why taint such an important message with such nastiness Sally?

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