Two Libs break ranks on gay marriage

Two Liberal senators have broken ranks to join Labor and the Green members of a senate committee in recommending federal parliament pass legislation to legalise same-sex marriage. Labor senator Trish Crossin on Monday tabled the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs...

Blankenhorn: How my view on gay marriage changed

IN my 2007 book, “The Future of Marriage,” and in my 2010 court testimony concerning Proposition 8, the California ballot initiative that defined marriage as between a man and a woman, I took a stand against gay marriage. But as a marriage advocate, the time has come...

Hurst: A new, civil approach to conservatism?

Will the Newman government embrace a modern brand of conservatism, or instead hark back to the conservatism of yesteryear? The Liberal National Party rulers in Queensland soon face a decision that will show which of the two routes they will be heading down. It will...