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The political news of three Sundays ago was overwhelmingly about same-sex marriage, and no wonder.
Finally, after almost two-dozen failed attempts, the senate had voted for its legalisation. The next day, debate was to begin in the house. Expectations were high.
But in all the excitement about marriage equality, another political milestone went unremarked. It also was the 10th anniversary of the fall of John Howard’s government. On December 3, 2007, Australia’s second-longest-serving prime minister was replaced by Kevin Rudd, having lost the election and his seat.
It was under Howard, of course, that the marriage act was changed to specifically prohibit same-sex unions. The fact that marriage equality finally passed the parliament almost exactly a decade after his ousting was more than a coincidence, however. It was a reminder of the extent to which John Howard’s prime ministership still haunts Australian politics.
Media Watch, Gadfly thought Emeritus Professor
David Flint must have disappeared from the mortal coil.
But there he was looking as splendid as a pox doctor’s apprentice on Sky “News” telling that other old stager
Alan (The Parrot) Jones that
Joe Biden’s election victory was a fraud, a “self-evident” fraud.
In response to
Trump’s claims of victory, Flint “can’t understand why journalists are throwing around the word ‘unssubsstantiated’ ”.
He must have forgotten that the courts, and even the Trump-loving attorney-general
William Barr, have found no evidence of electoral fraud. Something to do with lack of evidence as opposed to a warm feeling in the groin.