Well, I mean technically, they're are democratically elected by the people to represent them and make decisions for them. You can't put everything out to referendum/plebiscite. In this instance, Tony wants a plebiscite. When it comes back overwhelmingly in favour of same sex marriage - he doesn't actually have to act on it, like he would a referendum. So he can waste >$70 million putting it out to vote, yet still deny it.
Literally would not piss on the man if he were on fire. He is doing absolutely everything in his power to stall it and remove some of the momentum coming off the Ireland/USA legalisation. Utter scum.
Christopher Pyne and Malcolm Turnbull have taken a public but silent stand on same-sex marriage, as the only two ministers to sit on the frontbench as Warren Entsch introduced his long-awaited cross-party bill. Photo by Fairfax photographer Andrew Meares / @mearesy. Read more at smh.com.au #auspol
Tony's only delaying the inevitable. And it's disgusting that he can't separate his own (bigoted) views from what's best for this country. The fact that the population's majority wants Gay Marriage and he even has a GAY sister yet he still pushes this back, is repugnant. He WILL go down as the most hated PM of recent years, and, at the rate he's going, he'll end up being the most hated in Australian history. His racism has worn thin the public and this will be the last hurdle that he tips over before he gets kicked out.
He was always going to be the worst PM of all time. It was evident when he was opposition leader.
When your entire campaign for Prime Minister is based on fearmongering, misogyny and racism, all the while having no actual policy of your own (removing the carbon tax and turning boats around do not count as actual policy), you are going to be a bad leader. And yet, hoards of uneducated bogans, incapable of thinking critically, lapped up what he said like it were gospel and voted the moron in.
Tony's only delaying the inevitable. And it's disgusting that he can't separate his own (bigoted) views from what's best for this country. The fact that the population's majority wants Gay Marriage and he even has a GAY sister yet he still pushes this back, is repugnant. He WILL go down as the most hated PM of recent years, and, at the rate he's going, he'll end up being the most hated in Australian history. His racism has worn thin the public and this will be the last hurdle that he tips over before he gets kicked out.
This tbh. It's ridiculous that he wants to be remembered as the one who delayed it instead of the one who was perhaps against it personally but allowed it go through because it was what the vast majority of the people wanted.