John Howard - Gays Not Equal

TOPICS: John Howard. Lesbian and gay rights. Australian politics. John Howard Liberal Party leadership. John Howard tells Liberal Party room meeting not to support equal rights for gay and lesbian Australians. Julia Gillard. Peter Costello. Gay community. Gay and lesbian community in Australia. Equality. Equal rights. Civil unions. Civil partnerships. Lesbian and gay marriage caught up in Liberal party leadership tensions between Peter Costello and John Howard. Gay and lesbian community equal rights. Kevin Rudd. Australian government against equal rights for gay and lesbian Australians.

Ian Johnson, Out Now
September 12, 2007

Gays and lesbians should expect no improvements in the direction of equality under the law if the Liberal Party under John Howard is returned to power in Australia.

Australia's current Liberal Party government, led by its leader of 11 years, John Howard, seems to be entering its death throes. Unfortunately gays and lesbians are suffering as a result.

Today John Howard told Australians to vote for him in now due elections, but that he will not stay as leader for a full term--leading to the assumption that the unpopular Federal treasurer, Peter Costello, would then become Prime Minister at some unknown point in the next three years.

Gay and lesbian Australians--and any rights to equal treatment by John Howard under all laws, as Australian citizens--have just been trampled in the aftermath of today's leadership tension 'resolution' between Costello and Howard.

Political pundits think that John Howard's long-lasting political skills are now abandoning him as his deeply unpopular government faces the imminent election--strongly tipped to be won by a resurgent opposition Labor Party, led by the popular Kevin Rudd and his deputy Julia Gillard.

Today John Howard told the same party room that accepted his continued leadership of the Liberal Party that the rights of Australian gays and lesbians to equal legal treatment under Australian laws was "complicated". Howard decided his government was not to implement the recommendations of others to reform unequal laws on civil unions, pensions, superannuation, health and other areas for lesbian and gay Australians.

If he wanted to win any gay voters over at a time when he desperately needs to fight for every vote against Kevin Rudd, John Howard can be expected today to have just lost most of the 6% of the Australian electorate that constitutes the gay and lesbian pink vote.

Perhaps David Cameron of the Tory party in the UK could teach John Howard a few things about why targeting gay and lesbian voters makes sound electoral sense.

But then making sound electoral sense really does not seem top of John Howard's agenda today.

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