Labor push on gay vote to ‘kill’ issue

SENIOR Labor figures are pushing for a vote on gay marriage, possibly as early as next week, to clear the issue off the agenda. But as five ministers argued in favour of legalising gay unions in yesterday’s parliamentary debate, the Greens’ Adam Bandt said...

MPs out in force at LGBTI friendship group

CANBERRA: In what was unanimously agreed to be a historic occasion, the nation’s first Parliamentary Friendship Group for LGBTI Australians held its inaugural gathering at a reception inside Parliament House last night, drawing a great number of leading politicians...