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The Saturday Briefing: The Proxy War against Gay Marriage
The campaign against Safe Schools is reaching its final chapter, but in many respects the program has already done its work. As the battle ends, though, it becomes clearer that the fight was a proxy war against gay marriage. “They travel together under the rainbow flag,” opponent Lyle Shelton tells Mike Seccombe. “If you are stripping the gender requirement out of the Marriage Act, it follows logically that you downplay gender in other areas of society.”
Plus: Paul Bongiorno on how Malcolm Turnbull is adopting Paul Keating’s “raw meat strategy”, Karen Middleton on Trump and North Korea, and Wendy Bacon on the state of radical dissent.
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