The Cairns Post

Public tired of SSM fiasco

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HAS the PM and the Federal Government all gone stark raving mad?

This same-sex marriage vote is just beyond commonsens­e when there are Australian­s dying of hunger each day, children who are uneducated and starving, people who are homeless and displaced, who are unemployed, who need direction in life and who need confidence to face the next day.

The country is in economic shambles, refugees get more social benefits than Australian­s who served in wars and to now think the Federal Government is spending millions on this same-sex marriage fiasco.

Warning: The Australian public can take no more. The end is nigh.

Australian­s are committing suicide because they cannot make ends meet and we are now concerned about same-sex marriages? Give me a break PM. The PM’s days are numbered. This has become incredibly serious.

Tony Abbott will not get in. So, where do we go from here, I ask?

I ask for a forum to be conducted by the ABC or SBS to discuss the above issues, if the Prime Minister is game to face us head on.

I would like to be part of that forum. Foster Lee, Smithfield 1057: Macbeth, King of Scots, killed in battle by Malcolm, the eldest son of King Duncan, whom Macbeth had slain. 1483: The Sistine Chapel consecrate­d by

Pope Sixtus IV. 1914: Panama Canal officially opens as the SS Ancon crosses the justcomple­ted waterway between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. 1947: India becomes independen­t after

some 200 years of British rule. 1969: The Woodstock Music and Art Fair

opens in upstate New York. 1974: Gunman attempts to shoot South Korean President Park Chung-hee during a speech; although Park was unhurt, his wife, Yuk Young-soo, was struck and killed, along with a teenage girl. 1989: FW de Klerk sworn in as acting president of South Africa, one day after PW Botha (above) resigns as the result of a power struggle within the National Party. 2007: A magnitude-8 earthquake in

Peru’s southern desert kills 596 people.

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