by John | Apr 30, 2012 | Australian news, News
Throsby MP Stephen Jones’ same-sex marriage bill has proven less popular than a rival Greens bill as the Federal Government wraps up the first stage of its inquiry into the issue. A Senate committee into same-sex marriage finished the consultation phase of its...
by John | Mar 31, 2012 | Australian commentary
A LETTER being circulated in Victoria by six Catholic bishops asking parishioners to show their opposition to gay marriage is discriminatory, bigoted and medieval, says Greens MP Adam Bandt. The letter says legalising gay marriage would be a grave mistake that would...
by John | Mar 16, 2012 | Australian news, News, Take Action
Opponents of same-sex marriage are flooding the House of Representatives’ survey on the marriage equality bills before Parliament, while the Senate has published more of the submissions to its inquiry into the issue. Sixty-five percent of respondents to the House of...
by John | Mar 9, 2012 | Australian news, News
The Senate’s Legal and Constitutional Committee into Senator Sarah Hanson-Young’s Marriage Equality Amendment Bill 2010 has published the first submissions it received from the general public and opponents are out in front. Twenty-five of the 46 submissions published...
by John | Feb 27, 2012 | Australian news, News
With three marriage equality bills currently before Federal Parliament, Greens MP Adam Bandt – a co-sponsor of one of the bills – called on MPs and Senator today to use the next few months to work on bringing together a single bill, adding that there was a “sense of...
