end same sex couple discrimination in Australia

[miriam_e]

Sign the petition at GetUp's site:
http://www.getup.org.au/campaign/EqualBeforeTheLaw

GetUp have helped people achieve great things here recently. By simply adding your name to this petition you can help shock complacent politicians into action. GetUp have shown that politicians don't ignore such massive campaigns, and now with an election coming up they can't afford to neglect us.

71% of Australians, and even 63% of Coalition voters believe same sex couples should have the same rights as hetero couples.

Comments

[annie-lyne.livejournal.com]

I've signed it, but I doubt that it's going to make any impact on the current Coalition government (heck, they don't even take much notice of proper parliamentary petitions), nor do I think there's going to be much impact even if Rudd got in -- he seems to be a closet fundamentalist. Though at least we should get some more rights under Labor than the Coalition anyway.

The only way that we'd get any progress if the minor parties like the Dems and the Greens held the balance of power in the Senate again.

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

Hard to say. GetUp campaigns have forced the government to do things before that I frankly didn't think had a snowflake's chance in hell.

[sigh] The Libs are in the pocket of the USA-style, religious-right fruitcakes, and Labour are scared witless of the crazy catholics.

I won't be voting for either in any case -- haven't for Labour for decades. Useless bunch of spineless fools running around after their own tails. "Toe the party line"... yeah, that'll work... keeping things the same will sooo change things.

I agree with you about the Greens. I always vote for them these days. A lot of people do since that idiot, Beasley, parrotted Howard's racist agenda during the shameful "children overboard" fiasco. The Greens doubled their vote during that election, and Labour could have booted that monster Howard out if they hadn't shown what racist jerks they were.

I used to vote for the Democrats till they backstabbed Natasha Stott Despoja. That was incredibly petty and stupid, even for politicians. If they acted that way before getting power how badly would they manage if they got it?

[annie-lyne.livejournal.com]

They backstabbed Natasha? First I heard of it; she left because of her family. I usually vote for the Democrats.

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

Nope, before that, I mean. When the Democrats broke their promise about the GST. Natasha was the only one who stood up for it not being applied to books and public transport and some other things. She even crossed the floor and voted against them after the rest of them did a sneaky deal with the Libs. After that the Democrats lost a lot of support and there was a lot of infighting and she resigned as leader, but stayed on in the party. The Libs must have been delighted. They got their GST, destroyed the Democrats, and were instrumental in deposing Natasha, who was more popular than either the prime minister or the leader of the opposition.

I think she's been wanting to leave politics to spend more time with her family in the last year or so. Can't say I blame her. Spending too much time with all those horrid politicians would be terribly wearing on anybody.

You know what I blame for a lot of the evils in politics? School debating. I was very good at it when I was a kid, but quickly became disgusted in it when I realised it had nothing to do with truth -- the opposite, in fact. It was all about point-scoring, and twisting emotions and facts, in order to win. Most politicians are very skillful debaters. Is it any wonder politics is in such a putrid state? [shudder]

[sharpblonde.livejournal.com]

I guess I can't sign, as I'm Canadian, eh? :P

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

Actually the petition has a drop-down list to choose your country from so it seems they're encouraging people from around the world to add their voices to it. That's a great idea I think, because it is scary for politicians to see tens of thousands of voters standing up saying they're out of step, but it is another kind of worry for them to see people around the world condemning them as backward too.