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Marise Payne not willing to voice support for Katherine Deves

Marise Payne not willing to voice support for Katherine Deves

  Foreign Minister Marise Payne was not forthcoming with support for controversial Warrignah ‘Captain’s Pick’ Katherine Deves when interviewed on the ABC’s Insiders program on Sunday morning. Host David Speers asked Payne if she shared the view of Prime Minister Scott Morrison and former Prime Minister Tony Abbott who have back Katherine Deeves as a […]

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Lyle Shelton hopes marriage laws will be reversed

Lyle Shelton hopes marriage laws will be reversed

Lyle Shelton, the new Communications Director for Cory Bernardi’s Australian Conservatives has told Sky News that they’d like to see Australia’s recently passed same-sex marriage laws reversed. Shelton quit his role at the Australian Christian Lobby on the weekend, so he could run for a seat in federal parliament at the next election. He’s be […]

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Malcolm Turnbull disagrees with Kevin Andrews views on discrimination

Malcolm Turnbull disagrees with Kevin Andrews views on discrimination

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has described former Minister Kevin Andrews comments endorsing discrimination as “extraordinary”. Following today’s decisive win by the ‘Yes’ campaign on the issue of marriage equality, Andrews told Sky News that he was in favour of introducing laws that allowed people to discriminate on the basis on sexuality and religion. Andrews told […]

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Mark Latham sacked from Sky News

Mark Latham sacked from Sky News

Former Labor leader, turned political commentator, Mark Latham has been dumped by Sky News following widespread condemnation of his comments suggesting that a Sydney school boy looked gay. The network’s political editor David Speers announced Latham’s sacking on his program PM Agenda. “Sky News has ended the contract of contributor Mark Latham,” Speers said. “This follows […]

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Postal vote plebiscite plan proposed

Postal vote plebiscite plan proposed

The Daily Telegraph has revealed conservative coalition Ministers are planning on putting forward a new proposal for a plebiscite on marriage equality. Rather than an expensive trip to the ballot box, which would have cost up to $170 million dollars, the plebiscite would been conducted by a voluntary postal vote. The proposal would see all Australians […]

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