Same-sex relationships can be registered as civil unions in the UK and can be recorded as marriage in Spain, Canada and France, among other countries.
But in Australia at a federal level, there is no law to allow registration of same-sex civil unions and marriage is defined as between “man and woman’‘.
Recognition of same-sex marriage is the theme of this year’s Mardi Gras Parade on Saturday night, which promises a more developed artistic cohesion and a political theme of same-sex marriage reflected across at least 15 of the many floats to grace Oxford St
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