Are we just waiting for Rupert to croak it?

I am in a reflective mood.

The rain has only just stopped. It rained all night. It has been a wet start to Spring.

Australia's federal parliament grinds on. I'm not sure how representative it is. It seems to be held hostage to a bunch of radical thugs - they call themselves Conservatives - but they're more like spoiled bullies. Ignorant people who don't seem to understand that democracy is more than mob rule or majoritarian fancy. There are principles that inform democracy. Human rights and equality should be right up there.

I am not directly affected by the marriage equality debate. It doesn't directly change anything about my life one way or the other. As a heterosexual male it's not personally high on my agenda, but there is something about the fundamental decency of a society that claims to value emancipation, liberty and freedom that is important.

I tend to agree with Mike Carlton but wonder if the plebiscite is a gimmick to avert the collapse of the Liberal Party as much as it is a tactic to facilitate the destruction of the Liberal Party. 

Is this the final revenge for the Abbottistas? Unwilling to go forth and start their own Conservative wonder-party, Rupert Murdoch's sock-puppets instead choose to destroy the Liberal Party...

It is true Turnbull has not just been a disappointment but remarkably gutless and clueless. 

The marriage equality plebiscite is fast becoming an extremely unpleasant albatross round Turnbull's neck. It makes no sense to be holding one and one suspects that deep down Turnbull would prefer not to. If that is the case Turnbull is creating a whole lot of bad karma for himself and that sort of in-congruence can only ever cause a person harm.