Bob Katter, gets free publicity & GM referendum.

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/8433989/photographer-angry-at-katter-ads

The photographer who took pictures used in Bob Katter's controversial advertisement about gay marriage says he's not happy they've been used in a political context.

Mr Katter's Australia Party launched the television ads on Sunday in a bid to paint the centre right Liberal National Party leader Campbell Newman as a hypocrite for supporting gay marriage.

It asks how well voters know Mr Newman and features him repeating the words: "I support gay marriage."

It also features a couple of images of two shirtless men.

But the man who took the images, French photographer Franck Camhi, says he will try to stop his pictures being used.

"I did not know about it. That is not the use for them," Mr Camhi told Fairfax newspapers.

"I am against the use of it personally and if I can stop it I will."

Mr Camhi said he sold the pictures via an online image library and had not been aware of the controversy they'd caused in Australia.

Equal rights campaigner Phil Browne on Monday lodged a complaint with the Advertising Standards Bureau, labelling the ad as "vile".

"The ad uses fear and hate to target homosexuals, an oppressed minority group," Mr Browne said in his complaint.

"This is vile and unacceptable."

Federal opposition frontbencher Malcolm Turnbull labelled the ad a homophobic "shocker" on Monday night.

Mr Newman told reporters in Brisbane it was "immaterial" that he supported gay marriage but his party didn't.

But Mr Katter's party has said it won't remove the ads.

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Bob Katcall must be laughing into his 25 gallon hat ATM. I can picture Bob as a teenager, considering his future, wrestling with choosing a career path "Hmm, it`s boiled down to two options, politician, or circus clown, nup, I`ll take politician, heaps more fun, and I can be as funny as I like".

 

I just love how his party says that they're for individual rights and staying out of people's bedrooms.

Um, all their policies seem to be about taking away rights and telling you what you can do.

 

Tank, with that post you have clearly demonstrated that you know absolutely nothing about Katter's Australia Party. But worse, you are telling us things that you have just made up in your own mind to suit what you think they are about. I would wager you have NEVER read ANY of their policies. I would further wager that you have formed your impression of them ENTIRELY from what you have seen on TV.

 

Oh please tell me how Katter is about granting rights.

He's said that Australia is a Christian nation and people should just accept it.

 

Why hasn`t he got the right to the belief that marriage is between a man & a woman? How is that not "staying out of people's bedrooms"?

 

Saying you're for rights, etc and then saying that in your belief someone doesn't have a right because you don't agree with it means you're not actually for rights.

 

They declare that "Modern Australia was founded on Christian values and a responsibility to one's fellow man." Pffft

Their "Core Values and Principles" include:

"Australians must have the freedom to pursue outdoor recreational activities of their choice including hunting, shooting, fishing, boating, camping, 4-wheel driving, horse riding, rock climbing, and bushwalking without unnecessary limitations and restrictions."

And ...

"The ownership of one’s own back yard will be restored and a householder or landholder will be entitled to remove or eliminate, for example, flying foxes."

... from their Draft Policy Statement.


This party won't be around too long.

 

Read your own post.

 

You are making the Katter Party look well balanced & sensible aunty meat.

 

Yeah, they've got all the big issues covered.

I can see them all now: riding around on a horse, in their back yards, shooting all the flying foxes.

 

Now your over doing it aunty.

 

Katter has completely lost it, his colleagues are falling over themselves to distance themselves from him. He is an absolute nutjob and always has been, how anyone could possibly take him seriously is beyond intelligent comprehension. Even the far right are disowning him. Heres a pictur of him looking pretty gay himself

All hat and no cattle as they say in QLD.

 

Oh please, what in my post was saying that I don't believe others should have rights?

 

Bob Katter appears to be just another embarrassing individual, driven by a 200 year old mindset.

 

That`s about it. Excepting those with a similar agenda to your own, of course.

 

Katter is about as far right as Mrs Marx`s little boy. He`s as silly as a fox, having a shot at the vacum created by the incompetance of the present flock of buffoons.

 

Just tell yourself that he`s the cowboy out of the Village People, and you`ll be in love with him.

 

That's about it? So you have nothing of subtance to actually say?

 

Katter isnt far right? That deserves a lOl.

 

Give 'em time for goodness sake, they have only just started out. I reckon the Katter party will improve very quickly as they gain experience as a political party. I am sure all political parties are just as off-the-wall when they fist are formed.

 

I beg to differ on your what constitutes "substantial".

 

How about you actually back up what you said?

 

Don`t need to, anyone can still read your posts for themselves.

 

Saying you don't like what someone said is not violating their freedom.

 

Don`t cry when it happens then.