Does Apple have permission from Sun to do this?
What happens when there are too many iClouds making the sky dark?

You would have to be an Oracle to sort all this out.

It all depends on your perspective.

If you are an Australian citizen who doesn't appear in the list of 100 most wealthy, or an elected official in the LNP, you are correct.
If you are in one of those minorities, you have it backwards.

The LNP is being completely honest when it says it wants to support minorities. These are the minorities it is talking about.

A lot of this confusion is caused by Murdoch's Blog... I mean the mainstream media in Australia... saying the Greens are doing one thing, while the Greens are in fact doing something else.

The thing I feel is that people who consider marriage to be purely something based on The Bible and therefore no part of government should be completely and utterly prohibited from getting divorced - just as their scripture dictates should be the case.

It's the concept that they want to tout marriage as something sacred, then ignore their most sacred text with regards to everything related to marriage that makes me feel they have completely lost the right to be involved in this argument. They don't consider marriage to be sanctified, or else they wouldn't ignore The Bible as often as they do. It's childish behavior, throwing tantrums over something because they don't want to share.

Considering the number of religions that use marriage, the number of societies that use marriage, the number of governments that use marriage and the history of marriage existing before many of the currently popular religions (including Christianity) - would it not make more sense to separate marriage from religion?

When you get married in a civil service you are proclaimed to be married.
When you get married in most religious services I have seen, the key phrase seems to be "Joined Under God" - even during the service the word marriage is secondary.

So lets let each religion define their own term, and let marriage be the socially acceptable form that incorporates all races, creeds, colours, and orientations.

Of course this wont happen, because a group of people who follow a man who preached tolerance, generosity and hope all spend their lives practicing discrimination, greed and fear.

Considering marriage was around long before The Bible in it's current form, and that marriage exists within many different religions; I could go for this if people who were married outside the church could call themselves "married" and inside the church had to use the term "joined under God".

The only reason they were able to publicly attack the ABC was because they had almost every other media outlet bending over backwards to help them. The LNP have already stated their plans to privatize the ABC, which will almost certainly bundle it with the existing media. After which, the government not supported by the owners of big media will not be able to get their message out at all. How do you distribute a dissenting attitude when the media is refusing to report truth?

This has led to revolution elsewhere in the world, but Australia is currently to lazy to care. Bread and circuses. (or beer and football)

The current government is doing what it can, but all you need to do is read the speeches and policies posted on the web, and then compare it to the media coverage of the same. The media is lying, sometimes outright, sometimes just through omission; but that is the only exposure to information that 90% of Australians are getting. Unless we want our government to attempt to seize control of the media, then this next election will be purchased by people like Murdoch. It's a shame, it's disgusting, it's happening.

Very well summed up. I wish Australia would see these comments, and even if they didn't take them at face value, at least think about them. At no point in history do I remember being exposed to such a massive fraud being perpetuated on the public by the media elite. I saw Tony Abbott speak once and he was a complete disaster, couldn't string two sentences together clearly, unable to answer questions that weren't phrased to permit a bottled answer, unwilling to look at or even recognize the existence of people who disagreed with him.

Total media coverage of this disaster... ZERO? Never made it to the news at all that I saw or heard. However Gillard was to do something as harmless as a spoonerism, there would be multiple articles talking about her incompetence.

I am also worried that come September, I will for the first time in my life, be ashamed to be an Australian.

Thank you.

Not sure why this got modded down, it makes good solid sense to me.

Thanks for posting.

By definition a constituent is a voter; but I agree the perception from the likely future government of what a constituent is is very different to the dictionary definition.

Selling government owned assets is fantastic. You make a heap of money, get to ensure that all future profits go to those who had enough money and warning to buy up the asset (either in total or shares) and in 10 years time when the profit from the sale is gone and you no longer have the profit from the asset, you aren't in power any more and don't have to care that the country can no longer afford stupid things like health care and infrastructure.

Sorry, someone must be spraying sarcasm around here.

I agree the country won't change too much, but the quality of life for the average Australian will. Look at what is happening in Queensland and Victoria; leasing of National Parks, decimation of the Public Service directly impacting services (wait times at a lot of public services is up over 200%), corporations given exclusions to local planning regulations...
All of these sort of things make a regular impact on the day to day life of people living at or below the median wage.

Of course, the NBN plans alone are a good enough reason to resist a change of government.

The only reason he isn't a "US-style religious nutter" is he doesn't have the charisma or personality to carry it off. He wants to be. Look at the speeches he manages to get out without tripping over his own tongue and he is very much striving to be this. I can't imagine how bad things will get when this ideology, combined with his frequent confusion when taken off-script or dealing with foreign governments, gets into power. Ask me again in 12 months and I am afraid we will all have an answer.

This is what is going to cause Australia to follow the rest of the world into economic, social and environmental disaster. Many people (Australians) I speak to feel that we need to change the government, but when you ask them why they have little to no idea what the government actually does or how it works. The government we have now has not done a great job, but they have done extremely well considering the global issues going on - but many Australians tend to care nothing about the rest of the world unless it's broadcast in prime time in a sitcom format.

Of course, Australia is likely to change government in September, and then we will have the government for which dealing with constituents will be a much lower priority - right after changing the filter in the coffee machine.