by John | Sep 19, 2012 | Australian news, News
LIBERAL Senator Cory Bernardi has suggested legalising same sex marriage would lead to demands for bestiality to also be sanctioned. Speaking in Parliament last night on a gay marriage bill sponsored by four Labor senators, Senator Bernardi said the push for same-sex...
by John | Sep 19, 2012 | Australian news, News
THE NSW Premier, Barry O’Farrell, will allow Coalition MPs a conscience vote on a bill to legalise same-sex marriage, which a cross-party group of MPs will introduce this year. Liberal, Nationals, Labor and Greens MPs have formed a working party to draw up a...
by John | Sep 19, 2012 | AME media releases, News
Marriage equality advocates have welcomed the formation of a multi-partisan marriage equality campaign in NSW. Labor, Liberal, Nationals, Greens and Independent MPs will all join forces to help progress state based same-sex marriage laws (full details here and here)...
by John | Sep 18, 2012 | News, World news
HONG KONG (AFP) – Hong Kong’s first openly gay lawmaker is known as “Slow Beat” from his days as a disc jockey, but Raymond Chan says there is nothing slow about his plans to reform the Asian banking hub. Chan publicly revealed his sexuality...
by John | Sep 18, 2012 | Australian news, News
CANBERRA, Sept 18 AAP – Legalising same sex marriage won’t curtail anyone else’s rights and won’t result in a mass outbreak of homosexuality, Labor Senator John Faulkner says. Resuming the Senate debate on the Labor and Greens bill to legalise...