by John | Dec 4, 2011 | Australian commentary
ALL you need is love. That, and for Tony Abbott and his mates to say it’s OK. This weekend, the ALP finally agreed to change their party platform on whether or not a bloke should be allowed to marry a bloke. It’s alarming that it’s 2011 and...
by John | Dec 4, 2011 | Australian news, News
IN THE six years since becoming engaged, Michele and Lisa Saffery have held onto a dream that one day they could marry legally in Australia. Yesterday the women from Wagga Wagga and their two children, Gemma, 6, and Jordae, 5, helped carry a huge rainbow-coloured flag...
by John | Dec 4, 2011 | Australian news, News
MICHELLE LANCEY waved a photo of her two sons at a wedding. Why should she have only one photo of a son getting married, she asked her fellow delegates at the Labor Party national conference yesterday. Why couldn’t she have a picture of her gay son getting...
by John | Dec 4, 2011 | Australian commentary
FOR all the angst about whether to legalise gay marriage, it will probably prove to be something of a non-event once it eventually happens. The world will not stop, rivers won’t freeze over or mountains crumble. Life will simply go on and people will get back to...
by John | Dec 3, 2011 | Australian commentary
IT is a measure of the remarkable social change that has swept Australia in the past few decades that same-sex marriage is now a mainstream issue for calm and reasonable debate. There are certainly plenty of differing opinions about whether gay and lesbian couples...
