"Are gay people people? y/n": The Australian Marriage Equality Voluntary Postal Survey Thread

they're tripping over their own dixers, it's like the plank x 75

What's there to know?

1) Democracy Sausage
2) Knockabout fun at question time is preferable to getting any real work done
3) Elections are preferable to getting any real work done
4) If you've exhausted your options 2 and 3 change PM and try again.
5) Fuck Barnaby Joyce, Tony Abbott and George Christiansen
6) Preference deals lead to surprises!
7) Xenephon, Katter, McGowan, Hinch, Lambie etc. - not all loons all the time
8) Fuck One Nation Pauline Hanson and her nasty tribe
9) Sovereignty was never ceded so this all should be moot anyway - ignore that one ask hard as possible
10) Democracy sausage, except when voting ing a mean, spiteful and meaningless postal survey

10 out of 10, you're hired

So when Turnbull goes away next week our Prime Minister will be a New Zealander and our Head of State is British.

efforts to keep foreigners outside our borders not so successful

Maybe we should just have a rule that you're not allowed in parliament without a second passport. Might improve things.

Of course we've already had a British-born PM with all his Sir Prince Phillip nonsense so whatever

so our queen of state is married to sir prince philip of australia, so it's all fine

*head of state

don't want to say that the government are getting desperate but Christopher Pyne was going off his nut in QT claiming that asking advice from NZ Labour meant that the ALP are probably colluding with the Chinese Communist Party as well

it's like asking a colleague for advice in NAZI GERMANY

wtf at this whole thing

australia is not like the caricatures you're used to, it's 17 times worse

also i know the cost is completely besides the point, but pay me $12.2 million and i'll conduct this survey by mail. how in the world can it cost $122 million, that's insane. seriously, someone pay me $12.2 million, i will do great things with the money.

one thing i would do: i insert the words "<<< You're a complete asshole" by the YES option

we're allowed to draw dicks on the form so

ftr it's actually true

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has confirmed to BuzzFeed News that ballot papers with graffiti on them will be considered valid in the upcoming same-sex marriage postal survey, as long as a "yes" or "no" vote is clearly legible.

oh no, i'm saying as administrator of the survey i would insert the words "You're a complete asshole" by the YES option on every single ballot. it's not ethical, but sometimes you have to fight fire with fire.

and by the NO option it says something like "hey, you're alright!"

that would not surprise me tbh

Legal Experts Say The Govt Definitely Fucked Up Their Postal Survey

Is the prime minister of Australia still someone named "Kevin"?

He was Prime Minister from 27th June 2013 until 18th September 2013

Though that was his second-go-round

every state and territory premier/first minister supports marriage equality. the prime minister too (i call bullshit on that but at least he claims to). so the only leader currently in power who doesn't support marriage equality is actually a kiwi.

and therefore, ironically, is the only leader who could marry a partner of the same sex if he so chose. (Said yesterday but worth saying again)

ironic then that the only nationwide political leader who opposes marriage equality is the only one who's allowed to do it by citizenship

it's pretty ironic that Barnaby Joyce could marry a man if he wanted to, when he's the only national political leader actively barring other people from doing so, don't you think

You know what's ironic? Joyce is the only leader who could get gay-married, but unlike the others he hates the gays!

so it's ironic that he can marry a man even though he's opposed to it in his capacity as a political leader

it's pretty ironic that Barnaby Joyce's head kinda looks like a kiwifruit

(as kiwifruits aren't native to New Zealand)

https://www.facebook.com/AustralianYG/posts/1721222701244749

BuzzFeed News: If we change the marriage laws in Australia that it could lead eventually to people being able to marry objects such as… the Harbour Bridge?

Abetz: Why not? Why not.

stop this sexually irresistible merry-go-round i want to get off

In Australia it is not legal to marry an object and no one has ever proposed that it should be legalised.

rip australia

rip australia

If only Australia had died right then - we would have been spared pauline hanson wearing burqa in the senate

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/06198fe84262506796a357c57eb723488f033fdd/0_238_4500_2700/master/4500.jpg?w=620&q=55&auto=format&usm=12&fit=max&s=a20ee65d2079129734fda795127d828c

good to see john clarke is still writing material from the afterlife

i was hoping it was one of those people-sized bags magicians use & she was going to make herself disappear

fuckin UGH i hate that pinchfaced hag so much

amazing that 'MP claims people want to marry a bridge' was only the dumbest thing happening in this country for about thirty minutes.

— Colley (@JamColley) August 17, 2017

If I'd supplied a burqua for Hanson I would have made it airtight.

went to the melbourne rally yesterday. estimates of 20,000+ are otm, it was properly enormous. i've never seen even half that many at a rally. it took just under half an hour for the march to funnel through one junction.

before the march started an old guy came up to about 30 of us and yelled that we were going to bleed in hell or some shit. then he threw his coffee at us and i lost my shit and screamed back at him (i have never ever done this before btw). he turned and charged right at me, and my 70 year old mother-in-law pulled me back. police chased him down the street and we never saw him again.

I was amused by the coverage yesterday that suggested that liberals in marginal seats are not altogether thrilled by the addition of 100,000 people to the electoral role (and many more updating their details) in a country with compulsory voting.

yeah, and both major parties might pitch to young people for a change

Nah young people aren't WORKING FAMILIES what are you talking about only WORKING FAMILIES matter, m9.

HARDWORKING FAMILIES OF MUMS AND DADS

WORKING FAMILIES...

...FROM WESTERN SYDNEY

HCA unanimously dismisses the 2 applications.

i'm so very Looking forward to all those op-eds from Murdoch rags telling me and my partner and the rest of my community that we're yucky filth for the next couple of months

so fucking exhausted by this, and i'm not even the target. monotony and everyone, biggest massive hugs for the next few months. not sure what i/we can do but please speak up if you need anything.

our old local barista is in the new ME ad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl5pEmg4N_0

Turnbull says he will vote yes but won't commit to actively campaigning.

— Josh Taylor (@joshgnosis) September 7, 2017

fearless stuff from prime minister talcum murnbull

fucking useless piece of shit

Most pointless person ever

I mean, it’s their traditional belief, right? And yet all this poison was spoken righteously and entered into the parliamentary records of our country. Fuck you, bigots, I hope you squirm in your discomfort. It’s done now. Fix your hearts or die.

― attention vampire (MatthewK), Friday, 8 December 2017 00:23 (twenty hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

well said. what a fucking embarrassment. although it was delightful to hear christensen shriek about the cheering in the gallery, which was followed by cheering in the gallery. and the more the gallery cheered, the more it wound up the bigots. there's nothing like an angry sore loser, especially when they're fucking muck, and it's on video and in hansard for eternity. good. they can fucking die.

...it will take me a VERY VERY VERY long time to stop being weapons-grade furious with those fuck trumpets, probably never