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Telstra and growing corporate activism : Comments

By Rod McGarvie, published 21/4/2016

80 Chief Executives, including Apple’s Timothy Cook, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, and the head of the Bank of America also joined in on attacking the new law.

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Just another religious nut, It's got nothing to do with the validity of corporations using their money to push agenda's and everything to do with the author not likely what their saying.

If Paypal was run by religious nuts opposing treating LGBT then the author would be applauding them.

ring ring ring...it's the 1600's Rod they want you back.
Posted by Cobber the hound, Thursday, 21 April 2016 9:04:49 AM
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Private companies can support whatever they like, after all, there's nothing stopping churches from establishing an ISP of their own for Christians to voluntarily sign up for that filters out some of the more questionable stuff, and thereby, runs much more quickly and reliably.
Posted by progressive pat, Thursday, 21 April 2016 9:31:34 AM
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The alignment of corporate interests with the trendy causes championed by social justice warriors (SJW's) should come as no surprise.
Over the last 30 years, a New Consensus has emerged and now dominates what passes for public debate in Australia and elsewhere.
What is this New Consensus, you ask? I see it as a kind of truce, called by the traditional parties of the left and right. A truce that let's them both 'win' on issues that matter most to their donors.
The neo-con right gets free trade, access to cheap labour, higher returns to shareholders and an avoidable tax regime. They dominate in the economic sphere, where their supporters are chiefly focused. The left gets a better deal for minorities, higher levels of immigration, tougher environmental regulation. They drive and dominate debate on social issues.
Global corporations obviously recognise the emergence of this trend and see the advantages of working with it. 'Down with borders' is a slogan that works for Green Left Weekly and CocaCola Amatil equally.
Of course, both 'sides' will pay lip service to debating the positions of the other, for the entertainment of the media and to engender the facade of a healthy democracy. But in reality, whoever you vote for - you get the New Consensus.
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Posted by jingelic, Thursday, 21 April 2016 9:47:27 AM
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And the customers of these corporate perverts are the ones paying for their disgusting programs, just as it taxpayers paying for governments pushing their perverted encouragement of little perverts. At least we can withdraw our custom from the private perverts; no such freedom with the political perverts.
Posted by ttbn, Thursday, 21 April 2016 11:49:04 AM
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If I stole from Telstra, I’d be arrested, but Telstra feels free to support the campaign to steal the word “marriage”. It does not campaign for proper school funding, a first-class health system, the civil rights of unionists, decent treatment of refugees or anything real. Nor has its campaign to deprive the language of a word that means the union of a man and a woman got anything to do with civil rights. It did not lead the charge. In a sickening display of mob rule and like most self-righteous “same-sex marriage” advocates, it jumped on the bandwagon ten years after it had left the station, when it could be confident that its customers had already been converted to the cause by the brilliant and ruthlessly dishonest “marriage equality” campaign.

I don’t want to live in a corporate state in which billion-dollar businesses tell us what to think. But if that is what Australia has become, then I demand that Telstra support my campaign for funeral equality. Funerals discriminate against the living because you have to be dead to have one. Here’s Telstra’s chance to lead change, to be first on the next bandwagon of airheads.
Posted by Chris C, Thursday, 21 April 2016 12:52:56 PM
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If the disappointing Turnbull survives the Election. If Turnbull survives the leadership challenge from Abbott...

I don't think Turnbull will push for Same Sex a compulsory, expensive, Referendum.

Turnbull knows that he would lose too many votes from the heterosexuality majority.

LGBTQQI is such a tongue twister.

"Safe Schools Coalition Australia is a national coalition of organisations and schools working together to create safe and inclusive school environments for

same sex attracted, intersex and gender diverse students, staff and families.

It is funded by the Australian Government and, in Victoria, by the Victorian Government."
http://www.safeschoolscoalition.org.au/who-we-are
Posted by plantagenet, Thursday, 21 April 2016 1:27:30 PM
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