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[nigeltde]

Australia's new government has accepted seven Burmese asylum seekers being held in Nauru, signalling a wind-down of a controversial immigration policy. Immigration Minister Chris Evans said admitting the group was a first step in dismantling the previous government's so-called "Pacific Solution".

I think we picked a winner, folks.

No, I mean, I'm sure he'll cock it up soon enough, and he still has a long way to go on the gay front, but the past couple of weeks have been filled with sigh of relief after sigh of relief, you know what I mean?

Meanwhile, I heard on the radio today that companies like BHP Biliton are paying their employees to sign Australian Workplace Agreements before they get phased out mid next-year. Motherfuckers. You know what I hate, it's impossible to boycott oil companies and still, like, live in this world because they're all as fucking bad as each other.

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[lastrega.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean about Labor's lack of commitment to gay issues, but I'm still hopeful we'll get a better deal out of them than we ever would have out of the Libs under Howard. And, really, heresy as it may be to say it, the shameful imprisonment of refugees needs to be a higher priority right now.

Our time will come, and with gay-friendly Brendan Nelson leading the Libs now, we might have a chance of actually getting changes through parliament. Having Penny Wong in the cabinet won't hurt either, and I think it's such a fabulous thing for the kids growing up now to see that you can indeed be a proud gay person and achieve things in all kinds of fields.

[lydia-petze.livejournal.com]

The wonderful thing is, so many kids these days have the right attidute toward gay folks, so even if the ideal changes don't happen right away, I think we can reasonably expect to see them starting to happen in the next ten to fifteen years. Which I know is not great, but if the current government doesn't get it's finger out, I think one will in the not terribly distant future.

The example I love to use is the daughter of a workmate, who was fifteen years old when Annette took her to see Brokeback Mountain. The kid had trouble with the story because she had no concept of homophobia. She actually just didn't get, at all, why Ennis and Jack couldn't be together in Wyoming in the 1960s. That's...no amount of legislation will ever get you that.

[ecce-homosexual.livejournal.com]

I don't know, Kevin seems gay enough to me

[nigeltde]

But he doesn't wear short shorts!

[corvus-coronis.livejournal.com]

& about bloody time too - I went past Baxter on the way home on Sunday night & my mother told me it was apparently empty. I just thought - *yes!*