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SSM survey takes the cake

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There are lots of problems with the forthcoming same sex marriage postal survey but the biggest one is voters are essentially voting blind in the absence of a bill.

Why do we not have a bill? You’d have to ask the Turnbull government. If you ask me, I’d say the Turnbull government doesn’t have the backbone to put one up and give some useful form of definition to what we will soon be checking the boxes of in the coming weeks. But that’s just me.

Right now we have a fierce debate going on about something we do not know and cannot possibly divine and this, of course, has led to a lot of talk about nothing.

The rather tedious example being shuffled about and one mirrored in the United States is the one associated with wedding cake bakers (they call themselves designers now but I’m not falling for that one) and whether some of them have the right to withdraw their services to same sex couples who are preparing to tie the knot.

Full column here.

213 Comments

  • JackSprat says:

    Independent research firm Roy Morgan has the Aussie unemployment rate sitting at a yearly high of 10.2%, and underemployment — people who work less hours than they want to — at 9.5%.

    And this is before the tsunami of plant closures that are imminent due to high energy prices.

  • Milton says:

    wtf and Good Lord, survived the 12 yr olds birthday party but now I can’t find what should be leftover lollies. Mind you there was one kid I recognised from the start gobbing them in and an 1/2 hour later he was full of mouth with snag and bread and chased that with more lollies.
    gone are the days of….

    • JackSprat says:

      Dunno Milton.

      Around 30 years ago I was running one and the prize for a particular competition was packet of life savers.
      I had it throw back across the rooom at me.

      Last Halloween the kids came around. I had a bowl full of lollies and all the kids politely took one each bar one . He stood back and when the others were finished, a manic expression came over his face and he dived into the bowl with both hands. I might add he did not get very far.

    • Dwight says:

      All the kids in my life that age are 9,000 miles away, thanks be.

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