by John | Nov 29, 2011 | Australian news, News
THE ALP’s Left faction is claiming the numbers to remove from the party’s policy platform a reference to the Marriage Act which defines the union as that between a man and a woman. And it has not given up defeating Julia Gillard’s call for a...
by Alex Greenwich | Nov 28, 2011 | Australian news, News
Lobby group GetUp has launched a new video in a bid to get this weekend’s ALP national conference to endorse gay marriage. The video is shot through the eyes of a person who enters a friendship, falls in love and is later revealed to be a gay man after his...
by Alex Greenwich | Nov 28, 2011 | Australian news, News
And so the ALP’s National Conference has finally arrived. This weekend, Australia’s oldest political party will thrash out its National Platform and finalise its positions on contentious issues such as selling uranium to India, asylum-seeker policy and, of course,...
by Alex Greenwich | Nov 27, 2011 | Australian commentary
At the ALP national conference in Sydney later this week, gay marriage will be a hot topic. We doubt it will be in most Australian lounge rooms. While opinion polls suggest most Australians support a change to the law to allow homosexuals too marry, it is considered a...
by Alex Greenwich | Nov 27, 2011 | Australian commentary
What really gets you enraged about politics? The dirty midnight deals? The soaring cost of living? The loving couples who wish to get married? That last one doesn’t really fit. But if you listen to the conservative voices within our mainstream parties –...
