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Date: 17/11/2017

Following the overwhelming yes response of 61.6% in Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey legislation has already been introduced into the Senate which is sitting this week by Liberal Dean Smith. Due to size of the yes victory fellow Liberal James Patterson is not introducing his alternative same sex marriage bill. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and other senior government ministers have repeatly stated they want the legislation passed before Christmas. Labor and the Greens have agreed to this timeline however they will not agree to what they see as any winding back to anti-discrimination laws. What we are likely to have in the eventual legislation as what conservative members of the government have indicated they will accept at the very least is protection for free speech and parental rights over education. But given the pressure is on the government to pass the legislation opportunities for amendments will be limited.

The breakdown of the result has proven a bit more awkward than Labor and the left was expecting. The highest no votes were recorded in the Labor heartland of Western Sydney with nine Labor seats recording overwhelming no votes. Everybody was quick to highlight these areas have high ethnic and migrant communities which would have accounted for the high no vote. It is certainly shatters the leftist perception that the twin goals of multiculturalism and LGBT rights can coexist in a western country. It also puts these Labor MPs in western Sydney most of whom are frontbenches and who have already pledged their support for same sex marriage in awkward position when it comes before a vote in the parliament. 

One of the more humorous events in the aftermath of the survey results was Defence Industry Minister and Leader of the House Christopher Pyne’s twitter account liking gay porn. Pyne claims his twitter was hacked, his long-time political enemy Senator Cory Bernardi has used this event to try and embarrass Pyne by calling for an inquiry into the national security implications of government minister’s twitter account being hacked. Of course the reality of this situation is that Pyne a same sex marriage supporter was probably partying hard with his staff and most likely one of them when quite drunk did this to his account as an ill-fated joke. We don’t need to waste taxpayers’ resources on an episode like this and instead just laugh it off. 

Despite the vote happening Australia the world still turned and one bit of international news that had been overlooked is that military of Zimbabwe has staged a coup against that nation’s President of 37 years, 93-year-old Robert Mugabe. Mugabe had run the nation’s economy into the ground, violently displaced white farmers, persecuted his political enemies and corruption was rampant in his government. Mugabe is currently under house arrest and transition talks are now in place to see him peacefully cede power. His demise is a welcome development however it is unclear whether his replacement will see any reversal of that nation’s plunder. Opposition Leader Morgan Tsvangirai has returned. People have raised concerns about Army Chief and leader of coup Constantino Chiwenga links to Beijing but if those links is what has finally led to Mugabe’s demise who cares?

NewsLinks:
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/malcolm-turnbull-moves-to-legalise-samesex-marriage-before-christmas-after-resounding-yes-vote-20171113-gzkkaf.html
http://www.theunshackled.net/rundown/interpreting-the-yes-result/
http://www.news.com.au/technology/online/social/christopher-pyne-blames-gay-porn-tweet-on-hack/news-story/b37189679e31b399a383b85746b7a826
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/11/16/africa/zimbabwe-unrest/index.html

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