Anna Bligh by Michelle Smith

So let’s get this straight Julia … you are still pushing the same old lame pointless line, which defies every fibre of your background and sensibilities:
“Marriage is a union between a man and woman. We talked about this in 2009 so we can’t talk about it again until 2012.”

Get a grip. This is the era of the National Broadband Network, your government’s wonderful and wonderfully expensive attempt to get us ceaselessly connecting and creating and talking … why the hell should anyone shut up to fit in with your pointless and artificial timetables, built on your pointless and artificial political positions?

This weekend alone the most significant factional powerbroker of the governing party – Mark Arbib, and the President of the Party who also happens to be the Premier of Queensland – Anna Bligh, have come out in support of equality.

They join the most influential union leader, the Left faction of the Party, the notional holders of the balance of power in the Senate The Greens party, and 62% of the population in supporting gay marriage. Around 80% want a debate that the Prime Minister refuses to have.

It wouldn’t surprise me for a second if you and Penny Wong, the Cabinet’s lone lesbian, cling for dear life to the official line … but this is one tragedy whose ending can still be re-written.

The LABOR Government does not need to be on the same side on bitter grandpas, busy-body bigots, religious fanatics, and the slothfully ignorant and close-minded.   It can join all of the reasonable people like the million gays and lesbians and their millions of friends and supporters and do what Labor Governments are supposed to do:  support the vulnerable, the unequal, the unfairly treated.

For f*ck’s sake: get off the Titantic, Julia.