by John | Sep 19, 2012 | Australian news, News
BOTH Houses of Parliament are set to defeat attempts to legalise gay marriage this week but advocates, including the cabinet minister Penny Wong, believe it is only a matter of time before Parliament catches up with the majority of public opinion. The Senate is due to...
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 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...
by John | Sep 18, 2012 | Australian news, News
Liberal senator Sue Boyce will defy Tony Abbott by speaking in favour of a bill to legalise gay marriage, and has not ruled out crossing the floor to vote for it. Senators will tonight resume debating the bill, sponsored by Labor senators Trish Crossin, Carol Brown,...
by John | Sep 18, 2012 | Australian news, News
AS gay rights activists steel themselves for the likelihood of losing an historic Senate vote on same sex marriage this week, Senator Penny Wong says the very fact the issue was being fought on the floor of parliament was a victory. The Coalition has not allowed MPs a...
