Watch This Space...

...for political comment on the year to come.

• Why did the Federal Government leave out sexual preference from it's Landmark Human Rights document?
  
• So 10% of the Australian people are second class citizens?
  
• And we're all OK with that?
  
• What about when our son or daughter tells us they're gay?
  
• Will it still be OK?
  
• What will become of the Christian Right's attempts to have the Federal government bar transsexual and intersexual people from marrying?
  
• Will this mean genetic testing for ALL Australians before allowing them to marry?
  
• How will we otherwise know who is racially and genetically pure?
  
• Now who was that other guy who was very concerned about racial and sexual purity?
  
• Was that in Germany in the 30's?
• Hey! wasn't that the guy who had the really cool idea about detention centres? Is that where we got the idea for ours from?
• How come his said "Through Work Comes Freedom" over the gates and ours don't - what our inmates don't get freedom even if they work for it?
• Anyway transsexual and intersexual people can't bear children can they so they shouldn't marry should they - marriage, after all, is for the procreation of children isn't it? Isn't that what our Prime Minister said?
  
• Mmm! So I can't get married if I've had ovarian or testicular cancer? If I'm a woman over 55 I can't get married but if I'm a man I can?
  
• Nah! That would be stupid wouldn't it? The Prime Minister must have been kidding, hey?
  
• Now Iraq's nothing like Vietnam, right?
  
• So how come convoy's are being ambushed, puppet government officials are assassinated, the Americans are using tanks against snipers, we bomb the crap out of residential zones to kill the enemy but only see dead children emerging, we're there to save the people but they hate us and shoot us, our garrisons are hunkered down in bunkers and still get bombed inside their compounds, the country is ruined and infrastructure devastated?
  
• Ummm, didn't I see that on Black&White TV in the '60's?
  
• Oh! No, that was Vietnam...that was different...somehow, wasn't it?
  
• Hey! You know those politicians you admire that come out and admit their wrongs publicly? Ummm! How come John Howard's never admitted any wrongs? Oh! That's right...he's never done anything wrong has he?
  
• If he's that squeaky clean how come he isn't the pope?
  
• At least we're going to have American troops stationed on Australian soil which will be under JOINT control - that'll make us safe...and popular, won't it!
  
• Isn't it interesting that whenever something's under joint control the Americans get to make the rules.
  
• How come a little country like New Zealand that has a female Prime Minister and transsexual and Rastifarian members of parliament has the balls to stand up to America and formulate INDEPENDANT foriegn policy and we don't?
  
• And why don't we sign the Kyoto protocol? Are greenhouse gases good?
  
• Or are we waiting for America to sign it first?
  
• And why can't same-sex people get married and call it marriage? Would my marriage crash and burn because the guys next door tied the knot? Yep, that's got to be it. I mean after all it couldn't be because of domestic violence, marital rape, female genital mutilation or child abuse, could it?
  
• Or could it? I know, we stop gays and lesbians from marrying and then there'll be no more domestic violence, marital rape, female genital mutilation or child abuse and everyone will live happily ever after.
  
• Well that was easy wasn't it?