Marriage Equality

Part 6 of NoFibs Australian election coverage 2016: @Qldaah #ausvotes #auspol #qldpol

June 2, 2016

Ongoing coverage of the Australian election campaign for 2016.

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Part 5 of NoFibs Australian election coverage 2016: @Qldaah #ausvotes #auspol #qldpol

May 28, 2016

Covering the Australian election campaign for 2016.

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Part 4 of NoFibs Australian election coverage 2016: @Qldaah #ausvotes #auspol #qldpol

May 23, 2016

Covering the Australian election campaign for 2016. Table of contents Jump to comments section. Politics on the Reef. Bumbling Barnaby. Carping on with Barnaby. Spendometers and black hole politics. Donations and the Mob. . (May 27, 2016) Day 20 – Politics on the Reef Australia bleached from UNESCO report John Englart reported, “A UNESCO report identifies World Heritage […]

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Part 3 of NoFibs Australian election coverage 2016: @Qldaah #ausvotes #auspol #qldpol

May 18, 2016

Rolling coverage of the Australian election campaign for 2016. Table of contents Jump to comments section. Mathias knew nothing. What Mitch knew. Send in the cops. Medicare thaw. They took our jobs and growth. . (May 22, 2016) Day 15 – Mathias knew nothing Senator Mathias Cormann didn’t know about the raids Senator Mathias Cormann has […]

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Part 2 of NoFibs Australian election coverage 2016: @Qldaah #ausvotes #auspol #qldpol

May 13, 2016

Rolling coverage of the Australian election campaign for 2016. Table of contents Jump to comments section. Penalty rates. Riveting viewing. Green tide. Bill is back in Queensland. Saints and sinners. . (May 17, 2016) Day 10 – Penalty rates Battle for Indi Gabrielle Chan reported, “Corboy, who has a stock feed supply business, is hopeful and says […]

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Better ban the Bard if #SafeSchools scares you: @burgewords comments on Australia’s #NeoPuritans

March 18, 2016

Hated by the Puritans, the complete works of William Shakespeare was firmly entrenched in the Australian school syllabus decades ago. WESTERNERS have lived through many periods in which extreme Christians distributed anti-gay propaganda and thereby got the ear of authorities, and this month’s spat from Australia’s hard, religious right shows not much has changed in four hundred years. […]

Filed Under: #auspol, Front Page, Marriage Equality, Michael Burge Tagged With: Australian school syllabus, Cory Bernardi, George Christensen, Globe theatre, Hamlet, Histrio-mastix, homophobia, LGBTI, Lyle Shelton, Macbeth, Neo Puritans, Puritans, Safe Schools, Twelfth Night, William Prynne, William Shakespeare

LGBTI versus Christians, an unnecessary war: @burgewords comments on #SafeSchools

February 26, 2016

This is not a suffering competition for martyrs, it’s a legislative process taking place in a secular nation. THE Turnbull government has no firm plans for a public vote on marriage equality. We only know it’ll be ‘after the election’, an Abbott three-word slogan for ‘on the never-never’; and that it will be a non-binding, […]

Filed Under: #auspol, Creating Waves, Front Page, Marriage Equality, Michael Burge Tagged With: hate speech, homophobia, LGBTI, marriage equality, Plebiscite, Safe Schools, School Chaplains

Keeping #MarriageEquality off the record: @burgewords comments on #NeverMarried

January 23, 2016

It felt like a cold label for what was a beautiful love affair. WHEN the South Australian government was caught out by the world’s media for its lax approach to recognising overseas same-sex marriages on death certificates, the justifiable outrage about Marco Bulmer-Rizzi being documented as “never married” to husband David resonated with many readers. One small voice of […]

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Coming out in the cold: @burgewords reviews #Carol

January 21, 2016

The wait for enlightenment will be long, and the darkest, pre-dawn hour lies ahead. WITH nothing more complex than a series of firmly-closed doors, the film Carol takes a powerful dramatic turn that subtly gives two women the space to explore their attraction. When Therese (Rooney Mara) slips into the passenger seat beside Carol (Cate Blanchett) […]

Filed Under: #auspol, Front Page, Literature, Marriage Equality, Michael Burge, Misogyny Tagged With: Carol, Cate Blanchett, homophobia, LGBT, Patricia Highsmith, Phyllis Nagy, Rooney Mara, The Price of Salt, Todd Haynes

#Homophobia for the holidays: @burgewords on creating #LGBT characters

December 21, 2015

It would surprise most people to see what a strong thread of prejudice runs through families. Spending time with family over Christmas and New Year can be a challenge for anyone, but journalist and author Michael Burge explains how his first collection of short stories grew in the fertile ground of familial homophobia. WHEN I began […]

Filed Under: #auspol, Front Page, Marriage Equality, Michael Burge Tagged With: Australian writing, Closet His Closet Hers, fiction, gay fiction, gay gene, homophobia, LGBT, LGBTI, Literature, marriage equality, Michael Burge, short stories