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ABC helpline for staff affected by same-sex marriage debate — The Australian (should get their bedwetting attended to at the same time)

Diddums –.only the ABC would have an “ABC People and Culture general manager The ABC has introduced an “LGBTQI helpline” as part of a program to help staff members who are traumatised by the same-sex marriage debate. ABC staff were emailed today telling them the public broadcaster had started a helpline for members who were affected by the debate during the postal survey

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Random Note #187,672 — Charlottesville and Robert E Lee statue — What the hell did they think was going to happen?

Trouble only arose this year when a high-minded activist council, after almost 100 years, decided that it was politically incorrect and should be removed. What did they think was going to happen? What if some future council wants to restore it? Or is it only the politically correct left that has a right to frame history how it sees fit and airbrush those aspects that they don’t line up or doesnn’t fit their narrative?

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Random Note #199,671 — Gay marriage and the linguistic hokey pokey

All the equality, protections, benefits and responsibilities being sought by the rainbow gestapo are already available under Civil Unions and although they may be well meaning, those people who seriously believe that this has anything to do with equality have not been paying attention and need to ease up on the useful idiot Kool-Aid.

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Union and Labor Party links test GetUp! ‘independence’ — The Weekend Australia

Essentially what we’re dealing with with respect to GetUp is what’s known as an AstroTurf outfit. That is, an outfit, which like AstroTurf, is fake and pretends to be something other than what it actually is, in this case, a front for Labor and the unions — .”Was the motivation behind Shorten’s interest in GetUp! really to encourage independent community activism? Or was he a savvy, opportunist politician, keen to harness a nascent issues-based cause, and the enthusiasm it might generate among non-aligned millennials, to bolster his personal support? Either way, Shorten’s experience with GetUp points to lingering sensitivities for this organ­isation, now 12 years old but still batting away challenges to its credibility from critics who claim it is not independent and lacks life outside mainstream progressive parties.”

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