by John | Mar 30, 2012 | AME media releases, News, Religious leaders, Take Action, Who supports equality
Marriage equality advocates have welcomed a strong response in favour of marriage equality following news that Victoria’s Catholic hierarchy has sent letters to 80,000 Catholics urging them against supporting marriage equality. (Report here) Australian Marriage...
by John | Mar 28, 2012 | Australian news, News, Take Action
This is the last week in which the Senate’s inquiry into Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young’s Marriage Equality Amendment Bill will accept public submissions. The cut-off date is April 2, so if you want to make a submission you have only six days left. Continue...
by John | Mar 28, 2012 | Australian news, News, Take Action
ACT Liberal Senator Gary Humphries has told constituents who support same-sex marriage that he opposes a change to the law because marriage is a religious issue. In the letter to local residents, Senator Humphries said that same-sex couples cannot marry because...
by John | Mar 27, 2012 | AME media releases, News, Take Action
The current senate inquiry into marriage equality closes for submissions on April 2nd, 2012. So far around 10,000 Australians have put forward the case for equality, but this is still short of the 13,000 submissions against equality received by the last inquiry. If...
by John | Mar 26, 2012 | Australian commentary, Take Action, Weblog
By Jacqui Tomlins, Melbourne-based marriage equality campaigner. Follow her blog here. Senate inquiry It’s tricky trying to explain to a six year old the idea that a law – in this case a law about whether or not you can marry the person you love – can be different in...
by John | Mar 26, 2012 | Australian news, News, Take Action
Submissions to the Senate inquiry into the Marriage Equality Amendment Bill 2010 close next Monday, 2nd April. This is your opportunity to share your personal story about why marriage equality matters to you. Australian Marriage Equality has created a simple webform...
