ON THE NOSE - PART 1
Marriage Equality. Two words that have successfully divided Australia and legitimised a vile culture of hate and violence against the LGBT community that had been driven (mostly) underground for decades. A shameful past now emerging from the sewers to crawl in the gutters once again. It has derailed my plans to post one of two articles I’d written for this month, and dominated the wealth of issues that really need more attention than my time permits to address. But where to start? There’s just so much of it. Well, I guess we could start with what it’s all about. The LGBT community in Australia being denied the right to marry as defined under Article 16 of the Human Rights Charter. The one Australia helped draft, and has been a signatory of since, 1948. It’s 2017. The LNP has been systematically violating that and over half of the other first thirty Human Rights Articles of disadvantaged and ‘minority’ citizens and refugees for decades. Nobody seems to have noticed. https://