Suicide a bigger danger to gays: health experts

HEALTH experts say there is no reliable data to justify recent claims by religious figures that gay people are likely to die sooner than the general population, and that the health problems that do exist are a result of continuing discrimination. Australian Christian...

Swan sidesteps question on gay marriage

Acting Prime Minister Wayne Swan has refused to say whether the federal government plans to overturn a gay marriage law that could pass through the Tasmanian parliament. Tasmania’s lower house last month became the first chamber of an Australian parliament to...

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...