Line of discrimination

Somewhere in all this lot is a line of succession

Prime Minister Gillard is conducting a 'presser' at the moment. Don't you love modern jargon? For as long as I can remember there have been 'press conferences'. Now, in just a few months, 'press conferences' have become 'pressers'. Is it Twitter that has done this to us? With its 140 characters limit per message I suspect so. Journalists now compress all manner of messages.

Anyway, getting back to Ms Gillard's 'presser'. She is pleased to announce the Council of Australian Governments has acted to remove the discrimination that a first born male has precedence over an older born female in the line of succession to the British throne (and as a consequence also to the 'Australian throne'). Well, bully for that.

Not that I disagree with ending this gender discrimination. What a shame though that our Prime minister isn't equally as eager to remove discrimination based on sexual orientation. Marriage equality anybody?