Australia votes AGAINST equality!
JayPee86
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http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/samesex-marriage-bill-defeated-in-nsw-upper-house-20131114-2xicv.html
i am shocked to be honest, i have never been, but i keep getting told about this country being 'land of the free', 'very liberal' etc etc .
i remember starting a thread in the soaps section quite a while ago asking why there were so few ethnic minorities and gays in 'Home and Away', there were replies from Australian posters saying its just the media which has problems with equality etc.
i am shocked to be honest, i have never been, but i keep getting told about this country being 'land of the free', 'very liberal' etc etc .
i remember starting a thread in the soaps section quite a while ago asking why there were so few ethnic minorities and gays in 'Home and Away', there were replies from Australian posters saying its just the media which has problems with equality etc.
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All this story does is confirm my suspicions about the country.
Your title is miss leading. One state parliament voted on this not the entire country. Numerous MPs didn't vote as they believe its a federal matter not a state matter.
Quite. One state, and it was close at that.
I don't know, maybe it's because they're so isolated from the rest of the world?
Visas aren't issued by states. Passports aren't issued by states. Income tax isn't controlled on a state level.
These are all pretty critical, given they're the guts of the government's treatment of the married vs the non-married.
A bit sanctimonious when you consider the first same sex marriages in England and Wales won't take place until the middle of next year.
Along with the huge majority of countries world wide.
Only 13 countries so far allow same sex marriage.
Yes, you do seem to have an unhealthy obsession with all things Gay.
Perhaps because there aren't that many ethnic minorities in the kind of community that Home and Away is set in? Perhaps there are no homosexuals in it because they just haven't thought of that yet?
There are plenty of transgender people in this country and yet I've never seen one of them in a soap here.
I don't understand what people expect these programmes to do. Make sure everyone on set has a different heritage/mental disorder/disability/sexual orientation from everyone else?
That's only in EE and Corrie:D
I can think of one straight off the top of my head and I've never watched a soap on my life.
Is that a nautical term?
I wasn't insinuating that there has never been a transgender person in a soap. Just that i have never seen one. Along with many other types of people I have never seen represented in soaps.
You have to remember attitudes to gay people in the media tend to be quite different. There really aren't that many (out) gay men or women on television there, and when a profile does come out- it makes the headlines (and not always for the right reasons)
I hope they look to their New Zealander neighbours and decide to modernise accordingly.
It's not really true. I lived in Australia for 8 years. In any of the major cities - Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane (ie 85% of the population) - it's more socially liberal than most of the UK. It's just the outer-outer suburb quasi rural places, and the last rump of puritan babyboomers, where you'd find anything close to mainstream homophobia. - and often not even then, as the philosophy of a "fair go" trumps even prejudice.
Don't get me started on racism though, the entire aboriginal issue is a whole different kettle of fish....
Good for them.
My post wasn't simply to say that there has been one but that if I, as a non soap person, can instantly think of one then I'd be surprised if you weren't aware of one too (e.g. this one)