Blergh. I wonder if old Barnacle has a thing for Sting?
Certainly has a thing for ‘irrigating the desert’. 5 kids in this day and age? I’m sure they’ll all be great contributors.
what bullshit…“oh i wish i didn’t need to share this to the public in parliament”…Susan. You DO NOT HAVE TOO, just go to the HIGH COURT and present it there.
"We know that the best protection for those girls is that they get themselves into a secure relationship with a loving husband, and I want that to happen for them.
“I don’t want any legislator to take that right away from me.”
Barnaby Joyce (SMH Aug 16, 2011, at an anti-SSM rally.)
“I want to stand with the current definition of marriage. I think it has been trialled by time, by thousands of years across multiple cultures, across multiple faiths,” he said.
Pressed on the reaction of Australia’s Asian neighbours to the possible legalisation of same sex marriage, Mr Joyce warned that it would lead to negative judgments being made.
“When we go there, there are judgments whether you like it or not that are made about us. There they see in how we negotiate with them whether they see us as decadent. People would say that’s outrageous,” he said.
Barnaby Joyce, ( SMH July 5, 2015. Concerned about what Australia’s Asian neighbours might think if SSM was legalised.)
Even if she had no contact with the mum, surely she (or her Party acting on her behalf) could get access to copies of wedding certificate. The article even says their policy: “the Registrar-General considers such requests on a case-by-case basis”. Surely such an important request would not have been denied. And if it had, she would have said so.
We have open justice in Australia. This means that unless there are exceptional circumstances the information would be available to the public regardless of whether it was tabled in Parliament or filed at the High Court.