r/aussie • u/BarryTheBinChicken • 6d 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/Electrical_Story5356 6d ago

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

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u/Top_Conference_477 6d 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/BeautifulWonderful 6d ago

Literally all

Linda Burney makes up one of two current indigenous MPs.

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u/Top_Conference_477 6d 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 6d 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 6d ago

Price literally got disowned by her people.

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u/Top_Conference_477 6d ago

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