Comments on: Labor MPs defect on census changes https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/08/30/labor-gender-sexuality-lgbtqia-census-kamala-harris-cnn-interview/ On politics, media, business, the environment and life Fri, 30 Aug 2024 07:39:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.5 By: Mercurial https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/08/30/labor-gender-sexuality-lgbtqia-census-kamala-harris-cnn-interview/#comment-749251 Fri, 30 Aug 2024 07:39:55 +0000 https://www.crikey.com.au/?p=1172482#comment-749251 In reply to Gonggongche.

Phil Coorey, claiming the Greens policies will ‘cripple the economy’

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By: Sinking Ship Rat https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/08/30/labor-gender-sexuality-lgbtqia-census-kamala-harris-cnn-interview/#comment-749039 Fri, 30 Aug 2024 02:07:37 +0000 https://www.crikey.com.au/?p=1172482#comment-749039

Labor MPs defect on census changes

Nonsense. Have these MPs left Labor to join some other party? Expressing some doubt or disagreement ≠ defecting. Not even in Labor.

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By: Privileged Starvation https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/08/30/labor-gender-sexuality-lgbtqia-census-kamala-harris-cnn-interview/#comment-749025 Fri, 30 Aug 2024 01:00:48 +0000 https://www.crikey.com.au/?p=1172482#comment-749025 Coorey is not a good strategic thinker. Labor doesn’t need to spend resources against Bandt for the simple reason that Greens preferences almost all flow to Labor. There’s a handful of seats that the Greens could take from Labor but it’s not at all clear that attacking the Greens in those electorates would lead to more Labor votes

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By: Privileged Starvation https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/08/30/labor-gender-sexuality-lgbtqia-census-kamala-harris-cnn-interview/#comment-749023 Fri, 30 Aug 2024 00:55:09 +0000 https://www.crikey.com.au/?p=1172482#comment-749023 The census issue isn’t just a LGBTQIA issue. Religious lobby groups routinely lobby the ABS and government to ensure responses are biased in their favour. Crikey actually reported on it recently. https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/05/27/2026-census-religion-question-showdown/

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By: Gonggongche https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/08/30/labor-gender-sexuality-lgbtqia-census-kamala-harris-cnn-interview/#comment-749021 Fri, 30 Aug 2024 00:31:01 +0000 https://www.crikey.com.au/?p=1172482#comment-749021 In reply to banquo911.

Yes banquo911, Comyn was a senior exec in the CBA when it was doing all the terrible, one would have thought utterly illegal, things that were exposed in the Royal Commission on banking, so for him to it’s unfair is the height of hypocrisy.

And on Jacob Greber, he shamelessly pushed the gas companies’ we’ll-leave-if-you-try-tax-us line with his question in the National Press Club address. Adam Bandt gave a perfectly reasonable answer, imo. I’d have preferred he’d answered that Qatar raises $50billion in taxes compared to our $2billion whilst exporting less gas than we do yet can still get gas companies willing to be a part of it.

Then in a totally unhinged from reality moment Greber repeated the gas company line as a follow up question on the basis that it costs money to drill for gas. Where did the ABC find this guy?

The ABC Greens-hating didn’t end there. I ended up watching Sarah Ferguson interviewing Max on 7.30 by accident on social media. It was yet another excessively aggressive performance from Fergusson, with constant interruptions, pushing the Labor/froth-mouthed Coalition/property developer lines constantly.

I witnessed once on the Drum the host ignore for ages a Greens MP guest, who eventually injected himself into the conversation, only for the host to stop the conversation in its track and launch an unhinged, imo factually inaccurate rant at the MP over the Greens opposing Rudd’s taxpayer’s-will-pay-polluters-not-to-pollute ETS way back in the day.

I witnessed once on the afternoon briefing after the host dismissed examining the Greens stance on an issue with his duopoly guests by asserting they were a ‘fringe party’.

“Our ABC” is shamelessly biased against the Greens.

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By: Gonggongche https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/08/30/labor-gender-sexuality-lgbtqia-census-kamala-harris-cnn-interview/#comment-749015 Thu, 29 Aug 2024 23:49:30 +0000 https://www.crikey.com.au/?p=1172482#comment-749015 “Comyn claimed “fact-free rhetoric” was “eroding trust in institutions”.”

Comyn’s version of “Lend me your ear, while I call you a fool.” ~ Jethro Tull

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By: Gonggongche https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/08/30/labor-gender-sexuality-lgbtqia-census-kamala-harris-cnn-interview/#comment-749013 Thu, 29 Aug 2024 23:32:10 +0000 https://www.crikey.com.au/?p=1172482#comment-749013 In reply to Gonggongche.

To quote Jethro Tull “Everyone’s saved, we’re in the grave. See you there for afternoon tea.” ~ Jethro Tull

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By: Gonggongche https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/08/30/labor-gender-sexuality-lgbtqia-census-kamala-harris-cnn-interview/#comment-749012 Thu, 29 Aug 2024 23:27:26 +0000 https://www.crikey.com.au/?p=1172482#comment-749012 In reply to Bolivar diGriz.

Sensational point Bolivar diGriz, to quote Groucho Marx “Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them… well, I have others.” ~ Groucho Marx

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By: Gonggongche https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/08/30/labor-gender-sexuality-lgbtqia-census-kamala-harris-cnn-interview/#comment-749009 Thu, 29 Aug 2024 22:55:29 +0000 https://www.crikey.com.au/?p=1172482#comment-749009 There was always going to be ‘divisive debate’ about this, and always will be until these questions have been brought into the census and have been there for a while, but by not including these new questions about LGBTQIA+ Labor is just giving the bigots a temporary win. What’s more it will open up ‘divisive debate’ about the validity of some of the existing questions – the obvious one being religion.

I was going to make a joke about the acronym and the name Musk gave his daughter but turns out his other daughter is transgender.

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By: banquo911 https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/08/30/labor-gender-sexuality-lgbtqia-census-kamala-harris-cnn-interview/#comment-749008 Thu, 29 Aug 2024 22:42:10 +0000 https://www.crikey.com.au/?p=1172482#comment-749008 Census is still not anonymous, and retains identifying information online. Questions on gender and sexuality or not, this homo ain’t doing it.
Chalmers is keen to point out that it isn’t until ’26. OK so would he have people wait until it’s too late to change to criticise the decision (no of course he would have people not criticise the Labor Political Party at all, because they are beyond reproach).

Comyn thinks it’s ‘unfair’ that big business is accused of ripping off customers. Maybe ABC journo Jacob Greber would like to tune in and see someone who is actually channelling Trump in their rhetoric. It is demonstrably true that both customers and workers are being ripped off – maybe hard to see that from up in the C-Suite where everything is made up and the money doesn’t matter.

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