by John | Dec 2, 2011 | Australian news, News
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says the coalition’s position on same sex-marriage is unaltered and the question of a change to the Marriage Act is only academic at this stage. The Australian Labor Party national conference will on Saturday debate the issue of...
by John | Dec 2, 2011 | Australian news, News
TONY EASTLEY: The Prime Minister Julia Gillard said she wanted a noisy national ALP conference and she’s likely to get one. A symphony of debate and dissent is on the agenda. The three-day conference begins this morning at Darling Harbour in Sydney. Singer,...
by John | Dec 2, 2011 | Australian news, News
Division within the Labor party over gay marriage has intensified ahead of today’s ALP conference, with the convenor of the Right faction declaring it will vote as a bloc to back the Prime Minister’s call for a conscience vote. It looks likely Labor will...
by John | Dec 2, 2011 | Australian news, News
LABOR Party factional leaders have been forced to rally behind Julia Gillard in a bid to avert a disastrous rejection of her position on gay marriage on the floor of this weekend’s party conference. With the Left increasingly confident it has the numbers to...
by John | Dec 2, 2011 | Australian commentary
NOT so long ago, Tasmania was the laughing stock of the country, the only state where intolerance against homosexual people was still enshrined in legislation. In 1997, this was rectified by the passage of gay law reform. Since, the Tasmanian Labor Party has...
