Re: SSM Plebiscite
Reply #455 –
Why?
NSW holds more right wing factions and fundamentalist religious groups than any other state. Some of them are quite large like the Exclusive Bretheren, or West Sydney's large Islamic population.
I fear that the 58%-42% result in NSW will mean this is far from resolved yet, I think the sh1te is yet to hit the fan!
75% for in Abbott's electorate!
I'm not so sure that NSW does have more right wing and fundamentalist groups. However, it does have one of the longest running gay rights events. Muslims make up just over 2% of the Australian population and 50% of them live in NSW. That's hardly enough to make any impact on the result of the poll. The Archbishop of Sydney's strident opposition may have had some impact but I suspect it simply reflects the conservative views of rural and regional NSW and pockets of the metropolitan area.
Anyway, the government has just spent $122M on an opinion poll that confirmed what the opinion polls were telling us