Independents dine with gay marriage supporters

THE four independent federal MPs – Rob Oakeshott, Tony Windsor, Bob Katter and Andrew Wilkie – will dine with supporters of marriage equality from their own electorates at Parliament House, Canberra on Monday night. The dinner was won by the lobby group Australian...

Marriage equality support grows in ALP

The Australian Labor Party’s national president will be a supporter of marriage equality, no matter who is elected. All six candidates — from both the Left and the Right of the party — support marriage equality. Transport Workers Union federal secretary Tony Sheldon...

Robin: Labor MPs Fail The Consultation Test

Labor MPs agreed to find out what their constituents thought about same-sex marriage last year but some of them didn’t seem particularly interested in the results, writes Myriam Robin Almost a year ago, Greens MP Adam Bandt called “on all parliamentarians...