who spends his time marching in a "gay pride" march.
Why did he do it? The Prime Minister is not gay. He was married. He has a son. He now has a girlfriend who partners him to official as well as unofficial events.
Our Beloved Leader claims he was doing it in "support of diversity". What absolute nonsense. He was doing it for the publicity it was going to bring him - publicity he hoped would be positive. As he is still a darling of much of the media it was reported in mostly positive terms.
There was perhaps as much said about his appearance at this march as there was about his brief visit to a certain town in the middle of the continent. It took up almost as much of his time.
There is something wrong here. I suspect it is a diversionary tactic. "Let me show you how accepting I am of anyone who is that little bit different....and did you know that I was brought up in public housing by a single mother?"
That last story is just that, a story. He forgets to add he went to a fee paying school and had a lot of support most children in that situation do not have.
Someone who really cared would have spent much more time in that town in the middle of the continent. They would have toured the streets at night on foot and seen the real situation for themselves. They would have been listening to the local women when they told him not to do away with that cashless debit card.
Our Beloved Leader is investing so much into issues like "the Voice" and "climate change", "Net Zero", "sustainability" and more. He can't afford to fail or his years as Prime Minister will be seen as a failure. He has done so much travel on the international stage he even has been named "Airbus Albo".
Friends overseas find this man puzzling. Who is he? The Prime Minister. Yes, but who is he? What is he trying to do? What does he want? He's just a little man isn't he? He's not a statesman.
No, he's not a statesman. They don't march in carnival marches like that.
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Why do you call a gay pride march a "carnival"? That seems insulting to me.
Because it's during the beginning of Lent. [or the last thing you do before Lent
to get the sugar and the cream and all the food out - like Lunar New Year in another faith tradition/cultural context]
[and thus in homage to the Catholic Christian tradition which has been more or less secularised]
In Brazil there is a similar march/celebration called CARNEVAL
and somewhere between Fat Thursday and Fat Tuesday [the first weekend]
the 78ers marched there.
[the 1978 march was in the middle of the calendar year, though, and nothing to do with Easter or Lent or anything like that].
When you think of a "carnival" = "freak show" - yes, it would be insulting.
And it would also be insulting to many of the activists over time who would want you to take this seriously.
[for some of those same reasons I would be reluctant to call Mardi Gras a "party" - even in the sense of "party political event" which it is not, even if politicians of all stripes do march there].
In children's literature we often talk about the "carnivalesque plot" [especially in SLAP HAPPY LARRY by Lynley Stace - they go over it in just about every picture book].
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Albanese has been marching in the Mardi Gras since 1983
[long before he was married to anyone - his first wife or his current partner].
[and before he had children].
[and way before he was in politics - even though as a class of 1996 person he seems to be the only one in the current Parliament who remembers about superannuation before the Hawke-Keating world].
KayT:More than one person in the media has been calling it a "carnival" and, in doing so, mean it is a noisy, colourful event with processions, music and dancing.
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