by Alex Greenwich | Nov 29, 2011 | Australian news, News
One of Julia Gillard’s closest confidants, Home Affairs Minister Brendan O’Connor, wants Labor to change its platform on same-sex marriage. Mr O’Connor said yesterday there should be a “full debate” on the issue when it was raised at the...
by John | Nov 29, 2011 | Australian news, News
JULIA Gillard has appealed to a handful of right-wing MPs for their support to avoid a humiliating defeat on the floor of this week’s ALP national conference over same-sex marriage. Having staked her leadership on keeping an election promise not to change the...
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
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...
