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tcpipArrived in Wellington having yesterday for Multicore World having taken the midnight to dawn flight from Melbourne. With little else open at that time, we had a long buffet breakfast at Chameleon before making an early checkin at The Setup which can be recommended; whilst the rooms are small, it's inexpensive, modern, comfortable, and in an excellent location. After a typical visit to the excellent Arty Bees bookstore, joined a number of others at the pre-conference drinks at the Foxglove Bar (thank you Nvidia). To say the least Wellington harbour is quite beautiful on a summer sunset. Actually, Wellington is pretty nice all the time; it's thoroughly charming and despite its rather low population it is quite dense with an excellent mix of modern and historic buildings.
Only a completely different tangent, organised an interview with a Syrian refugee in Turkey. Like many like him, he's found himself in a situation where he's effectively a stateless person, a rather desperate situation to be in. In the meantime, there is an agreement between the major world powers for a cessation of hostilities, which has been rejected by the Syrian government, as Turkey continues to attack Kurdish positions.
In Australia, increasingly lagging behind the rest of the developed world, a continuing issue is marriage equality. A Federal MP, Andrew Broad, has recently raised the thoroughly weird argument for opposition: "I can put the rams in the paddock and they might mount one another but no lambs will come out." I could not help but write to the member seeking elaboration on this principle. Whilst obviously opposition to marriage equality is increasingly perplexing and bizarre, as is the proposal for a non-binding plebiscite. What can be suggested as a clear observation that whilst opponents of marriage equality are inevitably going to lose this debate, they're doing their very best to delay and determine how they lose.
Only a completely different tangent, organised an interview with a Syrian refugee in Turkey. Like many like him, he's found himself in a situation where he's effectively a stateless person, a rather desperate situation to be in. In the meantime, there is an agreement between the major world powers for a cessation of hostilities, which has been rejected by the Syrian government, as Turkey continues to attack Kurdish positions.
In Australia, increasingly lagging behind the rest of the developed world, a continuing issue is marriage equality. A Federal MP, Andrew Broad, has recently raised the thoroughly weird argument for opposition: "I can put the rams in the paddock and they might mount one another but no lambs will come out." I could not help but write to the member seeking elaboration on this principle. Whilst obviously opposition to marriage equality is increasingly perplexing and bizarre, as is the proposal for a non-binding plebiscite. What can be suggested as a clear observation that whilst opponents of marriage equality are inevitably going to lose this debate, they're doing their very best to delay and determine how they lose.
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Date: 2016-02-15 09:14 am (UTC)The head of the Australian Christian Lobby, who have the conceit that they can speak for all Christians, has said the problem with allowing gay marriage is that people will think he's gay because he's married.
http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/feb/15/with-gay-marriage-people-could-think-im-gay-says-christian-lobby-head
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Date: 2016-02-16 03:15 am (UTC)I mean, just because he's insecure in his identity doesn't mean other people shouldn't have rights.
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Date: 2016-02-16 10:01 pm (UTC)