“I’m all about the nicknames, I think it’s all about ownership, you know, those are our words, we can take them back. The main thing is you don’t want anyone to be treated differently for something they can’t change about themselves, so just deal with it – I don’t know, something like, for example, marriage rights or something.”
— Rhys Nicholson (@rhysnicholson) July 19, 2017
.@TurnbullMalcolm ??
— Rhys Nicholson (@rhysnicholson) July 19, 2017
Juuuust as an FYI, I don’t think Carrie & @theprojecttv “cut me off” last night. It was just the end of the segment.https://t.co/0yoKmZWu1D pic.twitter.com/BHdXmLSuSN
— Rhys Nicholson (@rhysnicholson) July 20, 2017
Talking to Fairfax Media earlier today Nicholson said he was just trying to “rattle” PM Trumble: “I expected him not to answer, but all I hope is he got into his car last night with one of his assistants, you know, like in a Thick Of It kinda way, and just been like ‘What the fuck was that?!‘”
“It was such a flowery segment.“It feels like the conversation about this stuff with the PM is like a barb in his side, like ‘Oh, I hope I don’t get asked about that…’, which is utter bullshit.“So I’m glad this [reaction] happened, because it’s the first conversation we’ve had about marriage equality in a little while.”
“I just recently bought a house with my partner, and there are so many little things we have to do that a married couple doesn’t have to… Things that would be very easily fixed by allowing gay marriage.”