Turnbull says government was right to hold SSM postal survey
Image: Malcolm Turnbull. Image: Facebook / Malcolm Turnbull.
As the Australian Bureau of Statistics has released figures showing that more than two thirds of marriage equality ballots have been returned, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has said that the numbers show the survey was the right thing to do.
In an interview on The Today Show this morning, Turnbull said that while he would like to see a ‘yes’ result, he is more pleased with the voting turnout.
“Well, certainly, Lucy and I voted ‘yes’ and I’d be delighted if there was a ‘yes’ vote recorded,” he said.
“But above all, I am so pleased that Australians are embracing this survey. Already we know from the ABS that over 67 per cent have returned their ballot papers. So we may well see a participation rate over 70 per cent.
“That would be extraordinary. That will prove that we were right. Australians did want to have their say and they’re having their say.”
Polls continue to suggest a ‘yes’ victory is likely, with the latest results showing 59 per cent of people say they voted ‘yes’, while only 38 per cent claim to have voted against marriage equality.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics recommends voters return their ballots by October 27, before the survey closes on November 7.
A new poll out this morning reveals 59 percent of Aussies have voted 'Yes'. @TurnbullMalcolm shares his thoughts. #9Today pic.twitter.com/zp46TmfaSy
— The Today Show (@TheTodayShow) October 17, 2017
The only reason most Yes voters voted is because if they hadn’t Turnball would have had an excuse not to have a parliamentary vote. The voters that have not voted would fall into the categories of protesting having to vote where none was required by Howard to mess this up 12 years ago. Or just not caring one way or another.
It is clear this has just been the Lying Nasty Parties extremely expensive way (with our money) of delaying fixing their monumentally unconstitutional screw-up by changing this legislation12 years ago.
TurnCoat clearly does not believe in the care-of-duty that a *good* government should provide for *all* of its people.
Look at at the closed-minded, unempathic, indifferent bile and venom the ‘No’ brigade has flung at us; in what TurnCoat claimed would ne a mature debate. Look at all of the mental health organisations that are proactively (and thankfully) reaching out to all in the Rainbow Community, because they *know* that support is needed by many who’ve been abused and hurt by the naysaying communuty.
TurnCoat’s voting card…
• Empathic care for *all* Australians: NO.
• My job is more important than ethics: YES.
TurnCoat, quite simply: ????
Good grief talk about spin doctoring. This waste of money was in no way the right thing to do and he knows it he just needs to back his own actions. Look at the hurt and division this debate has caused and will continue to cause well after the result has been published. Just because he supports a Yes result doesn’t negate the shit storm he has forced us to endure.
The right thing to do would have been to have the balls to have a parliamentary vote and put the issue to bed months ago.
It’s the No campaign that wanted this debate because they knew they would lose a free vote and this was their last ditch effort to sway opinion.
Goodbye Turnbull, I didn’t vote for you last time and I sure as hell won;t be voting for you next time.
Screw Turnbull. Just because I’m participating in this farce does not mean I in any way endorse it, and it’s dishonest for the PM to claim otherwise. I’m participating in this unstatistical “statistical” survey because it’s the shit sandwich I’ve got to get through if Australia is going to follow the rest of the modern western world and adopt modern civil rights.
We’ve got this survey because the dickheads who are now prominent in the No campaign demanded it. It’s an embarrassment, and the Kiwis and Poms are quite rightly ridiculing us for adopting it. We’ll be remembering this come election time, and Turnbull’s patronising claims about how successful it’s all been are not going to help him one bit.