Dollar Bill. Rumours are he’ll be returning to promote the marriage plebiscite. ” If it works for Ben Hur it’ll work for Dollar Bill’ ( Treasurer Scott Morrison)

The plebiscite aint happening. The timing is all out. Nothing on the plebiscite front. Labor and the Greens wont have it. A hugely divisive waste of money. Malcolm hoped to have it later in the year, then it blew out till 2017, and then really early in the new year. Hopefully, and then some…and now it’s stuck. Stuck fast just like tax reform and the innovation revolution.

There may be adverts in the pipeline, probably already paid for and due to be rolling in January. “Authorised by the federal government” Smiling lesbian couples and gay bachelors, with the odd bit of multiculturalism thrown in. Nothing stereotypical of course. We tried the lesbian muslim couple sent to us by the advertising agency, but the focus groups rejected it out of hand and the same went for the muslim gay couple. Had problems with the Chinese gay couple, worried about blowback from China, and input from the Property Council. Problems also with the ‘straight’ couple, as they were deemed too straight. Ended up with the cartoon imagery. Figured it worked with ‘Dollar Bill’. So might be given a safe re-run.

The advert we saw begins with a  nice fireside voice, not overtly masculine, but not necessarily feminine. Indeed a sort of LGBT hybrid, and the voiceover goes something like this; “ Australia is a changing dynamic country, and it’s time all of had a say in how we view marriage’, (camera pans to smiling couple, beatific kiddies, and the odd “ foreign type person’, perhaps even of darker skin hue smiling for the camera).

Lasy time we had a plebiscite it was a complete disaster.

‘Isn’t it time we all had a say, (and then joyously), make your voice count, on February the 28th, for the national marriage plebiscite? Whether, gay and lesbian, straight or lbgt it’s a chance to make this your special day’. (Anthemic musical interlude depicting smiling kiddies with adoring parents flying kites, blowing dandelions and being read to in bed). Voiceover; “It counts because we’re all in this together’, (camera pans obliquely at happy androgynous couple) ‘So do your bit and make history’. Camera, then zooms upwards and al the smiling people are shown grouped like big map of Australia. And in the background, slightly ‘gay’ music, perhaps techno fusion, with strings to symbolise traditional values.

The other advert being trialled doesn’t mention the vexed issue of gays or lesbians, but just suggests it obliquely. Camera pans across the shining dome of Eric Abetz, with the caption; ‘Australia, the decision is yours’!

Sound of Anthemic backing track that suggests, laughably that you, (the voter) may still count in the scheme of things.

Typical gay married couple.

Either way, time is running out, we can’t procrastinate any longer . Or can we? What’ll change? Where’s Malcolm? Missing?. Bill Shorten, Team Xenephon and the Greens say we should just vote in parliament, that’s what parliaments are for. But in the long run will it happen? Well not in the short run. But eventually. Soonish, some time, long time, your time. my time. The PM for innovation and thought bubbles will run out of innovation space. Get out. Or be gone.

His Prime Minister-ship as an interesting experiment will soon be over. What will come first? The plebiscite? or Malcolm?

The odds are firming on the PM. Who cares. Parliament wont vote on it.

Proof enough that the system is broke.

Anyone for tennis?