by Alex Greenwich | Jul 27, 2011 | Australian news, News
There’s growing pressure on the Prime Minister to allow a conscience vote on gay marriage. A Greens motion calls on all MPs to report on their community’s views in August. New South Wales Labor MP John Murphy says the message is loud and clear in his...
by Alex Greenwich | Jul 27, 2011 | Australian news, News
The Australian Rainbow Labor Network expresses its sincere disappointment in comments about marriage equality made by John Murphy, Labor Member for Reid, yesterday. Speaking to presenter Fran Kelly on ABC Radio National, Mr Murphy opined that voters in Western Sydney...
by Alex Greenwich | Jul 27, 2011 | AME media releases, Australian news, News
Marriage Equality Advocates have rejected the claims made by Senior Labor Backbencher, John Murphy, where he has called on those who support marriage equality within the ALP to “join the Greens”, that a referendum be called on the matter, and that his...
by Alex Greenwich | Jul 24, 2011 | Australian news, News
Deputy Chief Minister Andrew Barr is going to personally lead a new push by ACT Labor for national reforms to allow gay marriage. And Mr Barr says that generational change in the Australian Labor Party is bringing Australia’s same-sex couples ever closer to full...
by Alex Greenwich | Jul 18, 2011 | Australian news, News
Australia’s largest trade union, widely believed to be behind the failure of a motion to support same-sex marriage being voted on at the Australian Labor Party’s (ALP) NSW conference earlier this month, will not poll its members on the issue before the national ALP...