YOUR SAY: Deakin MP strong on gay marriage stance

GAY marriage proponents should not count on parliamentary support from Deakin federal Labor MP Mike Symon. At Labor’s national conference this month, the party voted to adopt marriage equality as its policy, but still allow MPs to have a conscience vote on the issue....

ACT renews push for civil ceremonies

The ACT Government wants to reintroduce legislation that aims to give same-sex couples the same rights as married couples. Today the Government will introduce a bill modelled on 2006 legislation that allowed same-sex couples to enter into a civil union at a ceremony...

Jewish progressives support marriage equality

The Union for Progressive Judaism has congratulated the Australian Labor Party for adopting marriage equality as party policy. Executive Director Steve Denenberg said in a statement, “Judaism teaches that all human beings are created betzelem Elohim (“in the...