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For whom the bells toll

25 November 2017

9:00 AM

25 November 2017

9:00 AM

Now that we’ve had time to digest the marriage poll and Mr Turnbull has leapt into action with uncharacteristic decisiveness to turn the result into law, we might pause to wonder what happened to all the outrage, the screaming at the sky, the attempts to storm parliament.

Where were the shrieking mobs of sapphics with their bib-and-brace denim and turkey-baster kids in strollers and the gays with their rainbow hair and hot pants and their whining about ‘love’? Where were the Fairfax editorials about the nation’s shameful ‘homophobia’? Where were the howls of anguish at ‘justice denied’, the sobs (we had...

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