On Thursday, NSW Parliament delivered a historic apology for anti-gay laws. A day earlier, the upper house was stuck debating a rather different bill.
Less than 24 hours before NSW became the last state in the country to apologise for laws criminalising homosexuality, the upper house was busy debating a bill that would make it unlawful to discriminate against … straight people.from the Shooters Fishers and Farmers Party, introduced a private members’ bill seeking to amend state anti-discrimination laws to rectify what he called a “glaring omission”.
The great thing about being an elected representative is you get the right to waste taxpayers’ money and parliamentary resources pursuing all manner of silly culture war piss-takes, no matter how small or irrelevant your special interests-focused minor party may be.So on Wednesday, the debate over Banasiak’s unserious bill continued in a similarly unserious vein when Liberal Susan Carter took the floor.
Carter ultimately opposed Banasiak’s bill because it would add more “lines of division” to what is, apparently, an already divisive anti-discrimination act. And for good measure, she even ended with a Martin Luther King Jr quote about how only love can drive out hate.committed his random act of violence seven minutes in. But off-field, there was plenty of action to catch our eye..
We’ll be keen to see whether the Victorians maintain their indifference when Origin II comes to Melbourne next month.The addiction that local members of Amnesty International have to letting it all hang out has provided CBD with years of entertainment. But after last year’s annual general meeting descended into an intemperate, nine-hour affair, this year they took no chances.
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