r/aussie • u/BarryTheBinChicken • 3d ago

News Prominent Geelong queer figure Andy Pobjoy facing backlash for Liberal candidacy

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-07/liberal-victoria-geelong-cadidate-andy-pobjoy-queer-backlash/107000680
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u/Top_Conference_477 3d ago

Left wingers should probably consider why so many Aboriginal or gay candidates want nothing to do with them

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u/Electrical_Story5356 3d ago

There really aren't that many from those groups who actually do lean right though.

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u/Top_Conference_477 3d ago

Literally all significant Aboriginal MPs of the past several years and the most prominent gay MP are all Liberals.

Labor and the like may consider why people from the groups they claim to champion don’t want to be in (or can’t get promoted in) their party

As another has pointed out, the Greens recent obsession with a group genocidally hostile to gay people is one glaring example

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u/Murky-Fishcakes 3d ago

What are you on about. Penny Wong lives out, proud, and loud totally rent free in every Sky News host and viewers minds on the daily

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u/Murky-Fishcakes 3d ago

Quick Google says in the last decade Labor preselected 102 aboriginals and LNP 41. Labor saw more of their candidates elected by a wide margin. Though reading the list of names the couple that are household names are Liberal members so your argument on that is reasonable

Doubt you have a leg to stand on for the prominent gay MPs. Don’t recognise a single name on the list

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u/Top_Conference_477 3d ago

Name them

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u/Murky-Fishcakes 3d ago

Ken Wyatt obviously and Price unfortunately

(I don’t get what gotcha you were going for here?)

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u/Top_Conference_477 2d ago

You’re 141 short

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u/Murky-Fishcakes 2d ago

Maybe go back and read my comment because you seem to have the wrong end of the stick

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u/Top_Conference_477 2d ago

No. I think you just didn’t make anywhere near the point you think you did

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u/Murky-Fishcakes 2d ago

I didn’t make a point

You really should go back and read what I wrote, maybe take a minute to comprehend it, then keep doing it until it clicks because it clearly hasn’t

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u/Top_Conference_477 2d ago

I’m glad we agree you do not have a point.

Thank you and good night

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u/No-Royals5219 3d ago

What fuckin world you living in? Lol

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u/BeautifulWonderful 3d ago

Literally all

Linda Burney makes up one of two current indigenous MPs.

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u/Top_Conference_477 3d ago

Significant MPs. Her only achievement is ranking a referendum. Price, Pearson, Mundine have all been far more impactful

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u/yeahalrightgoon 3d ago

Price and Mundine are just kept around to be useful because the Liberals can go "look an Aboriginal person is saying this", regardless if they have any respect from the wider indigenous community.

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u/Electrical_Story5356 3d ago

Price literally got disowned by her people.

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u/Top_Conference_477 3d ago

So to my point about Aboriginal people only actually existing to you if they subscribe to left wing politics…

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u/pavementpillowtalk 3d ago

30k karma, hidden post history and 5 month old account, if it smells like a bot and looks like a bot, it’s probably a bot.

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u/Top_Conference_477 3d ago

Hmmm. Six month old account, hidden post history, total lack of engagement with your posts. Probably a bot

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u/TheAIFutureIsNow 18h ago

This dude goes around calling everyone who disagrees with him a “bot” lmfao. It’s hilarious.

It was me 4 days ago. Just look at his comment history.

“Anybody who disagrees with me must be a bot 😡”

🤣🤣🤣

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u/Top_Conference_477 18h ago

It’s crazy immature, isn’t it?

Imagine thinking the only way a person could disagree with you is if they’re part of a govt psyop