| Tarale Catgirl C:\ DOS C:\ DOS RUN RUN DOS RUN Level: 89 Posts: 986/2030 EXP: 6714418 For next: 201483 Since: 07-23-07 Pronouns: she/her Since last post: 2.0 years Last activity: 1.6 years |
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Just in case you guys think I'm just picking on the USA, my own country is pretty fucked up too.
We're having a postal survey about marriage equality now. It's the stupidest thing and it makes me very angry. Our awful conservative government refuses to have a free vote in parliament over it. So instead they've tried to have the population vote using a plebiscite—and the legislation to do so has failed, TWICE. So because they're not allowed to have a proper plebiscite through the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC), they're having this fake plebiscite postal survey through the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). And it makes me SO MAD. For one thing, the postal vote won't be available to a whole bunch of Australians. Homeless people, people on the silent roll, and Indigenous Australians will all find it pretty much impossible to vote. Young people will also have trouble for a variety of reasons, in particular that they move houses so often (locked out of the housing market) so the survey might not reach them in the mail. So it won't give us an accurate idea of Australia's views on this. Oh and there'll be all kinds of hate campaign shit to go with it I'm sure. Plus, the ABS have not had a good track record recently with the awful census last year. JUST GIVE US MARRIAGE EQUALITY ALREADY ____________________ Tarale.net |






