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"Bill Shorten wants quotas to boost number of gay politicians in Parliament"

further to that "He says the party should consider quotas for Indigenous Australians and the lesbian, gay, bixsexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) community."

Is this the start of a new POLITICALLY CORRECT push by Shorten, if it is I think it will backfire.

Fear not!

There are plenty of heterosexual weddings taking place.

Here's one which excited George Brandis and Barnaby Joyce so much that they charged the taxpayers for their travel expenses to attend it.

http://www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/brandis-joyce-attended-wedding-on-taxpayers-tab-20130928-2ulgn.html

" The Attorney-General claimed $1700, including more than $1000 on return flights, $143 on a hire car and the overnight ''official business'' allowance designed to cover accommodation and incidentals.

He told Fairfax Media on Saturday that he regarded the wedding as a chance to ''foster collaboration'' over Smith's work on covering Ms Gillard and the Craig Thomson scandal and was therefore ''primarily a professional rather than a social engagement''

''These were both matters of significant national interest on which I spoke frequently in Parliament and the media,'' he said in a written statement."

"significant national interest"...is this guy for real?

Dear Poirot,

You mean this is the same attorney-general, George Brandis
who was the Opposition's "attack dog"
going after Slipper, Thomson, et al, for the misuse
of taxpayer's funds? And isn't he the man who's now going to
be writing the code of behaviour that pollies are supposed
to follow? Goodness me! There should definitely be an
investigation into all this, plus they should both pay back
the money - as Tony Abbott was forced to do with his misappropriation
of funds while promoting his book, "Battlelines."

I wonder who this man is to the Coalition - whose daughter's
wedding they both attended? What's the connection?

Interesting. Perhaps this incident won't be swept under the carpet -
like their asylum seeker problems. So much for a "no surprises"
government. I don't think people realised that when they were
told "We'll stop the boats," they meant, "We'll stop talking
about the boats."

Labor don't appear to have caught up with the changing facts of life yet.

The old days of buy one & get one free, politically, are gone. Where they could buy a vote from some ratbag fringe dwelling group, with out it affecting the votes of normal people in the past, it no longer works that way.

In fact it is now probably a negative in their overall vote. More are turned off by their rabid attempts to hoover up the ratbag vote than they gain. More people are waking up to the fact that so many Labor policies are chosen to win a minority, all too often to the detriment of the majority.

Labor's boat people policy is a prime example. Letting them in, while pretending not to, was designed to shore up their Muslim vote. They expected only minor repercussions in the main vote. Too late Rudd realised their mistake, & came up with the bound to fail PNG bit of fluff. It cost them dearly.

The stupid thing is that Labor are now running around upsetting "proper" Ozzies, to buy the ratbags they all ready own. Every vote they buy costs them more than a vote in the larger community. Although we still have a few here, the old time rusted on voter, for the old time Labor are a dying bread. So many are disillusioned daily & jump ship, that those left are getting lonely.

Lets hope this fool Shorten gets his way. It will be another stake in the heart of this rabble, masquerading as the once great & useful party.

Shoring up the Muslim vote Hasbeen?
Gee, there are barely 1% of Muslims in Australia, so I doubt their vote meant much!

Shall we talk about Abbotts push for the Catholic votes?
Now there is a good lot of votes amongst that holy lot!

Suseonline - Quote "Gee, there are barely 1% of Muslims in Australia, so I doubt their vote meant much!"

But congregated in 1 or a few electorates that 1% of the population extrapolates out to very large percentage.