I am glad she is not in my mind Pete....you are welcome to her.

Penny Wong keeps saying 72% (I think it was ...close enough) of people would vote yes.

Well, if that is the case I wonder what she is worried about?

I will go with the majority view...no matter what it is...why can't she?

Raddy,

Some folk appear to make their lives overly complicated.

I can recall someone telling me years ago if you owe bugger all, your roof dont leak, a comfortable bed and someone of pleasant nature to share it with, some tucker in the fridge and something to drink their aint too much left to life.

Sounded fair enough to me at the time. Then again I still had a few of those requiremnts to meet back then.

Take it easy.

SD

On virtually any issue, a seething pit of moral outrage, political correctness and hypersensitivity awaits any poor soul willing to express a counter, or God forbid, unique opinion. Here’s my proposed formula (with apologies to one A. Einstein): as tolerance to opposing thought approaches zero, the density in the skulls of those politicians tends to infinity, and no intelligible information is permitted to escape from the event horizons of these political black holes.

spectator 

I was going to head this up with Penny Wong is in my mind and in my underpants but Nahh

To the elites’ surprise and outrage, Tony Abbott’s reaction was to do what he had promised to do at the last election, refer this to a Coalition joint meeting. The meeting decided on a conscience vote, but only after the next election. So did a majority of Liberals, in spite of a claim that Abbott had manipulated the vote.

Abbott had a second surprise up his sleeve, one again based on principle. Instead of the politicians and judges deciding the issue , this would be a matter for the people. This is the very last thing the elites want. Despising the rank and file for their common sense, they know the referendum process will let them hear both sides of the debate.

Hitherto the commentariat have ensured that the people are bombarded with the pro-marriage equality case, and hear little from the other side.

The Marriage Alliance says its advertisements have been rejected by two television networks. A Catholic Bishop was threatened with being gagged, as Andrew Bolt was. Earlier this year three Christian books extolling traditional marriage were banned in NSW schools.

Imagine what would happen if the change were made. In Canada, words like ‘mother’ and ‘husband’ as well as the celebration of ‘Mother’s Day’ are now being targeted.

Another tactic is to terrify the more nervous Liberals. According to the Australian’s Paul Kelly, Malcolm Turnbull ‘believes the same-sex train and its money power will steamroll the government at the election.’

Has Turnbull forgotten the 1996 election? As gullible Liberal politicians jumped onto the Keating-Turnbull bandwagon for a republic that was declared ‘inevitable’ by the commentariat, John Howard neutralised the issue with just one announcement. The question, he said, would be decided by the people in a referendum.

spectator 

THE venomous campaign against Royal Commissioner Dyson Heydon, a former High Court judge. Comrades-in-arms leading the attack included Labor’s Penny Wong, a former CFMEU lawyer, and Brendan O’Connor, whose brother Michael is the union’s national secretary.

Penny Wrong should get back under her union rock,she is an insult to we females  who KNOW marriage is between ONE WOMAN and ONE MAN        not 2 ims or 2 ers

Speaking of Michael O'Connor (and I know it is off topic but that is how it goes sometimes in here) I only found out today that he is another of Julia Gillard's conquests.

Apparently she only went after married men;

1. Bruce Wilson, 2, Michael O'Connor CFMEU, Peter Gordon (Slater and Gordon), Craig Emerson, and then the mould was broken when she took up with divorced Tim Mathieson.

Wonder if they are still together?  She appears to spend a lot of time travelling here and overseas giving speeches.

One would almost think it is a case of "sleeping your way to the top" Abby!;)

I like Penny

She turns me on 

lol!