by Jen | May 27, 2015 | AME media releases, Australian commentary, News
Focus is now on Coalition Free Vote. Commencement of debate is June 18, 2015. Vote on The Bill is November 12, 2015. Marriage equality in Australia is a step closer to becoming a reality after Senators Sarah Hanson-Young and Janet Rice announced debate on their...
by Jen | May 24, 2015 | AME media releases, Australian commentary, News
Prominent Labor MP, Tony Burke, has become the first Australian politician to declare for marriage equality following the Irish referendum. Advocates have welcomed Mr Burke’s change of heart saying it will positively influence other Labor members. The NSW...
by Jen | May 24, 2015 | AME media releases, Australian commentary, News
Marriage equality advocates have welcomed Prime Minister, Tony Abbott’s, support for debate on the issue in parliament and have called on him to personally back a free vote for Coalition members. Responding to the successful Irish referendum on marriage...
by Jen | May 24, 2015 | AME media releases, Australian commentary, News
Political leaders have no more excuses for holding Australia back. Australia now only Anglosphere nation without marrige equality. Aussie won’t buy scare campaign against reform. “If traditionally-conservative Catholic Ireland can endorse marriage...
by Jen | May 20, 2015 | Australian commentary, Australian news, News
Former deputy prime minister Wayne Swan has switched his position on same-sex marriage, conceding he was “wrong” to oppose it, as new figures put Federal Parliament less than a handful of votes away from backing the landmark reform.
by Jen | May 16, 2015 | Australian commentary, Australian news, News, Overseas commentary, World news
Thirty years as best friends, eight years as a couple, one dying wish fulfilled. Australian couple Lee Bransden and Sandra Yates said ‘I do’ at Rotorua’s Mitai Village on Saturday afternoon, a ceremony made all the more poignant because Bransden has...
