by John | Aug 31, 2011 | Australian news, News
TONY Abbott and Bronwyn Bishop have been accused by the Greens of “ignoring their constituents” after neither would say whether their people in electorates supported or opposed same-sex marriage. When asked about the issue, the Opposition Leader and member for...
by John | Aug 28, 2011 | Australian commentary
State and church recognition should not be confused. GAY marriage will not go away. The reason is simple: most Australians accept being gay as a fact of life – a matter of innate identity and biology. Only a minority holds to the old prejudice that homosexuality...
by John | Aug 27, 2011 | Australian news, News
Hundreds of thousands of votes have been lodged in an Australian Labor Party (ALP) social media poll on marriage equality. The huge response comes just a day before federal MPs are due to speak in Parliament on the same-sex marriage views of their electorates. The ALP...
by Alex Greenwich | Aug 25, 2011 | Australian news, News
Federal MPs are still divided on the issue of same sex marriage, and so, it seems, are Australians. The Daily Telegraph reports in parliament this morning Greens MP Adam Bandt reported that following a survey of his electorate of Melbourne, only one of the 475...
by John | Aug 23, 2011 | Australian news, News
FEWER than 1 per cent of 86,000 constituents in a key Monash federal electorate responded to an online survey about the same-sex marriage debate. Chisholm, held by federal Labor MP Anna Burke, drew the poor but passionate result of 335 votes against same-sex marriage...
