LET YOUR YEA BE YEA AND YOUR NAY BE NAY
There are questions which we cannot avoid and from which we cannot hide in a fog of rhetorical questions and vague allusions. Basically, there is the question of whether single-sex cohabitation is a...
View ArticleSame-sex marriage debate gets personal
The Australian – 23 June 2016 Rosie Lewis, Reporter Labor senator Penny Wong is worried a plebiscite on same-sex marriage would license hate speech. Labor hardened its stand against the government’s...
View ArticleTurnbull, Shorten trip up on marriage equality
The Australian – 29 June 2016 David Crowe, Political correspondent Bill Shorten and Malcolm Turnbull endured a difficult day. It had to happen after almost eight weeks of official campaigning:...
View ArticleMixed Messages from Bill Shorten regarding Gay Marriage Plebscite
Bill Shorten flips on gay marriage plebiscite The Australian – 29 June 2016 Dennis Shanahan (Political Editor, Canberra) Bill Shorten told religious leaders and Christian voters in the final days of...
View ArticleGay marriage plebiscite ‘could be held before end of year’
The Australian – 29 June 2016 Joe Kelly, Political reporter Turnbull: “Same sex marriage will be legislated for by the Australian Parliament”. Picture: Jason Edwards Malcolm Turnbull says a plebiscite...
View ArticleMarriage about commitment not gender: PM
By Elise Scott AAP – 30 June 2016 The key to marriage is commitment, and if a same-sex couple has that for each other it won’t have any impact on the heterosexual marriage of the prime minister. It’s...
View ArticleTurnbull to claim gay marriage mandate
The Australian – 30 June 2016 Paul Kelly (Editor-At-Large, Sydney) & Dennis Shanahan (Political Editor, Canberra) Malcolm Turnbull has demanded that Bill Shorten pass legislation allowing a...
View Article‘Ugly’ Irish gay marriage defence rejected
The Australian – 30 June 2016 Rick Morton, Social Affairs reporter, Melbourne The architect of Irish gay marriage referendum Yes campaign Tiernan Brady, in Australia helping on the effort here....
View ArticleFree speech inimical to Left’s stifling orthodoxies
The Australian – Wednesday 21 September 2016 Janet Albrechtsen Perhaps it was the delirium of pneumonia that allowed Hillary Clinton to speak so freely, putting half of Donald Trump’s supporters in...
View ArticleALP’s anti-plebiscite drive reflects audacity of hate
The Australian – 28 September 2016 Jennifer Oriel There is something rather dangerous about the gay marriage debate — and it is not homosexuality or marriage. It is the view widely held by our...
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