by John | Oct 19, 2012 | Australian news, News
AN alternative to marriage would be available to all couples, including those of the same sex, through civil partnerships laws proposed yesterday. Independent MP Bob Such introduced a Private Member’s Bill to the Lower House, saying it was not purely a...
by John | Oct 19, 2012 | News, World news
WASHINGTON: Gay rights advocates in the US have won another victory in their fight for equal treatment under the law, with the appeals court in New York striking down a key part of the Defence of Marriage Act (DOMA) and upholding for the first time that gays and...
by John | Oct 17, 2012 | Australian commentary
Kevin Andrews has announced conservatives have “conclusively won” the same-sex marriage battle. Rodney Croome knows that’s rubbish – because rural activists are only just beginning to fight Opponents of marriage equality like Kevin Andrews show...
by John | Oct 17, 2012 | Australian commentary
It’s been a big few weeks in marriage equality land. Despite intense efforts, Australian politics handed down its verdict on same-sex marriage: no. First comprehensively in Federal Parliament’s Lower House, and then not long after, narrowly in Tasmania’s Upper...
by John | Oct 17, 2012 | Australian commentary
Recently “victory” was claimed by anti-marriage equality protagonists following defeats of amendments to the Marriage Act in the Federal and Tasmanian Parliaments. But at close examination everyday Australians could be forgiven for questioning what we call...
