Q&A shows why same-sex marriage opponents need campaign funding
Last year, Coalition ministers were banned temporarily from appearing on the ABC ’s Q&A program by then prime minister Tony Abbott . After the treatment received by Regional Development Minister Fiona Nash on Q&A last Monday, it remains to be seen if some Coalition ministers will implement a private boycott and avoid appearing before presenter Tony Jones and the program’s invariably left-stacked baying audiences . In recent years, many ABC programs have been obsessed with the issue of what some call same-sex marriage and others term marriage equality. So there was no surprise on Monday evening when Jones called the first question on this topic, which occupied about a third of the program. Comedian and actress Magda Szubanski was asked to respond to the first question from the audience about the plebiscite and all that. She declared that “a lot of us in the LGBTQI community ” did not want a plebiscite and argued that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer an