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Bolt is dribbling from both sides of his mouth lost he's still trying to steal the moral high ground the deception never ends. The man is trying to steal the glory of the Yes vote by claiming the process was the most democratic, voluntary and the peoples choice That's total BS.
Four million Australians who voted 'No' have become 5 million in the hands of Bolt and that minority opposition of no voters the 36% now need protections promised and never afforded LGBTIs by them for 100s of years. Had the No vote won no changes would have been required.
These conservative bigots and ignorants so adamant that they have now discovered the meaning of social justice now demand the protection of their rights to continue to do what they have done for 100s of years nothing!!
Of course, they will continue down that road of nothing and no change and apply their bigotry to Muslims who actually bolstered their 'No' %. They will continue to discriminate against other minorities in Australia as well such as the Indigenous, those on welfare and other minorities we have seen negatively stereotyped by Bolt who he justifies need policing and shunning on the basis of White Judeo Christian beliefs that wealth is a sign of gods reward for moral culture.
Bolt's suggestion that this was "voluntary" survey supported by the majority of Australians simply because there was an 80% turnout couldn't be more bullshit. No mention of how Abbott forced it on the nation simply as a costly delaying tactic. Conservatives can't admit they are wrong and when that's staring them in the face will take the path of most resistance to change. It took a referendum in 1967 to admit First Australians were recognized hundreds of years after invasion delayed and fought at every step in fear of loss of privilege. Abbott knew he'd lose this vote that he was totally unrepresentative of his electorate who 80% voted 'yes'. How out of touch is he? He was simply stalling the progressive inevitability of something that needed doing the removal of social injustice for LGBTI's equality when Australian opinion was already known. What was his purpose for slowing down progress simply political to divide his party and showing how the moderates had stolen it away? Drawing attention to a cultural loss was another form of Cronulla that Nationalism and bigotry were a god given right and LGBTI s were the real interlopers dividing the nation and drawing attention away from the more urgent issues of the country such as Surveillance National Security the cutting of taxes and Welfare.
Australians didn't simply don't want to vote. Ask any LGBTI they didn't need the permission of other Australians they had the right to be treated as equals and they knew it. It' was called Social Justice on every day of the week was justified and we had a parliamentary and democratic process in place. Because they are celebrating today doesn't mean for one moment they are celebrating the process that was forced on them by the ultra-conservatives of the Liberal Party which Bolt attempts to suggest was a validation of our Democracy rather than the hurdle in the way. Does Bolt actually believe that this was democracy at work what a farce? The ACLU has already stated the fact that this war isn't over and it's just beginning as far as they are concerned. So has the Church and even the vice president of the party. Listen to her cry of victimhood "The "yes" campaign promised that, if same-sex marriage was to be legalized, there would be no consequential impact on free speech, religious freedom, freedom of conscience or parental rights, particularly when it comes to education. It promised no changes to prohibitions on commercial surrogacy or to the way gender is used in our language and laws. A push by "yes" campaigners for same-sex marriage legislation that does not enshrine protections that cover all of these aspects would be nothing short of dishonest." Okotel 'Yes' campaign must keep promises after 5 million people vote 'no'
In Bolt's world had the "no vote won"there wouldn't be the outcry for the protection of LGBTIs to be treated equally as there is now by the 36% they'd have simply been denied that right. So why is it so urgent that the conservative 36% not 40% but really less than 30% be given some special dispensation they never afforded other minorities. They want to continue the cultural bigotry foisted in a systemic way they felt was their privilege to do and not just in an opinionated way on only LGBTIs. Maybe the shaming and blaming that still goes on in families will have been massively reduced by today's action. Maybe the battle for recognition and reconciliation has been won and other forms of disadvantage will be attended to Abbott's biggest fear that there is such a thing as human rights that draw attention to equality rather than privilege.
The Labor Party, the LGBTIs the Liberals all who had to vote and said "Yes" did not take the task on board in any voluntarily way they were forced to do so.
Abbott's intent was to divide the classes distract from a simple economic and material divide just like the Cronulla riots reduce the notion of left and right to a cultural rather than a material one. Forget what the electorate's wanted simply create a fight. Let's hope that this impacts on him in the next election and that it's hopefully it's not forgotten the time and money wasted and the cry get a spine to those who felt the unnecessary pain the waste of Australia's Democratic time and Money
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Distraction has been the history of Abbott's approach to regain the power of the Liberal Party. Distraction and non-action got him into power and distraction and guerilla warfare has been his means to try and lever himself back. The evidence he ignored his role as the representative of Warringah by insisting on a referendum on Marriage Equality that 80% of his electorate voted "yes " to. Who was their MP it wasn't Abbott he wasn't listening? He was too busy distracting Turnbull. Abbott has effectively stalled government in Australia since winning an election nobody could lose and he did it with lies and broken promises. Abbott and his conservative cronies rear their heads when Turnbull is overseas or hasn't anybody noticed everything to distract and now they are crying, victim. Bolt's doing it but he's also trying to claim victory for a survey that nobody wanted that was a waste of time and an unnecessary expense except for News Corp.
The 36% that Bolt is now crowing about incorporates the most despised group he doesn't even want in this country Asians, Africans, and Muslims his side is actually made up of White Judeo Christian which is only some 25% of the Australian community but notice how he has embraced what he calls 40%. Loose with his facts he certainly is and a convicted liar to boot.
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Bolt grabs their vote but doesn't want to admit they too are Australians. His ant- Muslim propaganda has been nonstop since the days of John Howard but he certainly takes on board their vote as evidence of Judeo- Christian Culture. Marriage in Muslim Indian and other Asian cultures is nothing to do with the nuclear family it tends to be an arranged and economic issue rather than a religious one and same-sex marriage interferes with that transference of property. Bolt's 36% or his 40 % are less unified than Bolt wants to make out. Tomorrow he will be blogging yet again on just how unwanted these immigrants are.
What Bolt fails to recognize is that these "diverse Communities actually welcome the separation of powers and that's why they are Labor seats and it's why they don't vote Conservative. Their ALP MPs aren't expected to represent them in terms of their religious beliefs. That's significantly different from the seat of Warringah in which the population is more homogenous and Abbott simply ignored them. Seemingly acting like a high priest Abbott expects his religion to be a part of some Christian Sharia rather than acknowledging the separation of powers as is done in Western Sydney. How does bolt think Abbott would fare if he ran for a seat in the West?
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Distraction vs Action with Bolt praising Abbott's guerilla tactics of ensuring the LNP don't get things done in order to call for the return of Abbott when the great stall of politics is Abbott forcing Turnbull to deal with two fronts. Abbott's record was the least active government since Gorton and had he stayed on even worse. The least passing of bills seen for more than 70 years and we are supposed to be impressed with that record. All Abbott has achieved is that his conservative team ignoring their electorates for the destruction of the Liberal party for the sake of revenge there is no credit due him for that. Turnbull seems to be the only MP in sync with his electorate The Monkey Pod room have turned their backs on theirs
THIS WAS THE PARTY THAT LABOR FOUGHT VICIOUSLY TO STOP
Column Look at the gays celebrating Wednesday’s massive public vote for same-sex marriage. The unambiguously great thing about this result is that more than seven million Australians have put their arms around gays and lesbians to show we’re one family. So how cynical was Bill Shorten to hail the result of a poll he tried to viciously to stop?
Here we have an ultra-right-wing Conservative trying too not just gate-crash the party but steal it suggesting that Australian Democracy was saved by Abbott referendum and Turnbull's survey what a joke. The survey was forced on a minority and money wasted of a process that wasn't the norm or even indicative of how our Democracy works. Sorry Bolt it's not your party you can cry if you want to. But now will we be making all the decisions on social justice depend on this form of extra time and money spent. Bolt has no faith in the fact of representative Parliamentary Democracy is how this country runs and in this case, it didn't. Disadvantaged minorities will it seems have to go through this process whenever the privileged feel threatened or whenever they see an opportunity to culturally divide the nation on fictitious beliefs rather than addressing material conditions of disadvantage. This whole charade took attention away from the fact that homelessness is on the rise. the lifestyles of the underclass of white Australians is fast resembling the that of the indigenous that Bolt likes to tell us is a consequence of their Culture and not lack of opportunity. Why is it white Australians are adopting Aboriginal culture Bolt the homeless in our urban environments have never met an Aborigine.
Hopefully, recognition will be of Bolt's bullshit and example can be taken from the step to equality gained yesterday but be prepared for a struggle and if won watch the likes of Bolt try to steal the victory
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What can you expect from an economic spin doctor? You have to pay for bullshit. The word "transition" is up or down and given Shell has just sold out Woodside for $3.3 bill and the NAB is reviewing its investments in Fossil Fuels. Combined with the fact that Adani is crying for a socialist solution from a Liberal government to finance it's investment while it's trying to divest from its coal-fired power station which way do you think that "transition " is heading in the next 23 years and at what rate. Then ask yourself who you'd choose as your financial advisor.
MUGABE MAY BE GONE AT LAST
The old tyrant falls: "Zimbabwe’s military is in control of the capital and the state broadcaster and is holding President Robert Mugabe and his wife under house arrest...South Africa’s African New Agency said last night Mugabe had negotiated with the military to allow his wife Grace 'safe haven' in South Africa in return for him giving up power."
SAUDI CROWN PRINCE: DESTROYING HIS ENEMIES OR HIMSELF?
Revolution or immolation?: "Mohammed bin Salman ordered the arrest of 11 princes in his royal family and nearly 200 members of the Saudi business elite, and has begun to take power from the kingdom’s conservative clerics. He has blockaded Qatar ... and encouraged the resignation of Lebanon’s prime minister. Signs of potential blowback are growing."
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