The question of marriage equality needs to be resolved

Over a two week period from 12 September 2017 an Australian Marriage Law Survey Form will be sent by post to every Australian registered to vote. It will be sent to the address given on the Commonwealth Electoral Roll.

This voluntary survey form needs to be returned before 6pm on 27 October 2017. If it is received by the Australian Bureau of Statistics after the deadline it will not be counted.

The survey form asks one straightforward question: “Should the law be changed to allow same-sex couples to marry?”

Trump the Demagogue

US President Donald J. Trump holds a rally at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, AZ, on 22 August 2017

Political meme of the Week

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Quotes of the Week

“TRUMP’S USE OF DECEPTION and untruthful affidavits, as well as the hiding or improper destruction of documents, dates back to at least 1973, when the Republican nominee, his father and their real estate company battled the federal government over civil charges that they refused to rent apartments to African-Americans. The Trump strategy was simple: deny, impede and delay, while destroying documents the court had ordered them to hand over.” [Kurt Eichenwald writing in Newsweek, 31 October 2016]

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“About the best way you can sum up Scott Morrison’s week is that he began it by accusing the ALP of raising taxes and he ended it by introducing a bill to raise taxes.”  [Greg Jericho writing in The Guardian, 20 August 2017]

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“The problem is that Kim Jon-un is largely the same personality type as Trump — both are paranoid, narcissistic and have huge egos…..We’ve never really had leaders like that on both sides before.” [Dr Genevieve Hohnen, Lecturer in Politics, Edith Cowan University, quoted at news.com.au, 15 August 2017]