Gov minister Matt Canavan (who's still waiting for the high court to rule if he's even eligible to be in parliament because he's a dual citizen) appeared on last night's Q&A and was confronted by a gay man over the whole marriage equality survey. In particular his comment that gays should "grow a spine" in the debate.
Of course he had the usual argument from the No camp of being persecuted and censored by the Yes people, sheesh. Then he said said how terrible it was that LGBT people dared to point out the high rates of suicide among young LGBT, feigning outrage that people lives could be used to gain political points. Needless to say he didn't do the No side any favours.
Perhaps the best point was made near the very end by the gay audience member:
But Canavan’s comments didn’t hold much sway with the questioner, who went on to ask why we needed to conduct the postal survey – rather than a parliamentary vote – in the first place.Of course we all know the answer to that.....
“We’ve lived in a democracy for more than a hundred years,” he said. “Why does this one ‘debate’ as you call it… need a different brand of democracy to any other law that we’ve ever passed?” Junkee
Isn’t the role of leadership to support the most vulnerable? @mattjcan @RichardDiNatale & @AmandaRishworth respond #QandA pic.twitter.com/L1d7I3mbCW— ABC Q&A (@QandA) October 9, 2017
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