by Carol Burger | Oct 23, 2013 | AME Talks, Australian news, Uncategorized
Two Couples Celebrate the first same-sex marriages in New Zealand earlier this year. The A.C.T. has passed Australia’s first same-sex marriage laws. The legislation’s wording was changed in recent days to improve its chance of surviving a Federal...
by Jen | Oct 22, 2013 | Australian news, News
Same-sex marriage laws passed the ACT Parliament today, after last-minute modifications based on expert legal advice to protect against a High Court challenge, writes Rodney Croome Australia’s leading constitutional barrister, Bret Walker SC, has cleared the way for...
by Jen | Oct 22, 2013 | Australian news, News
The ACT government has scrambled to amend its same-sex marriage bill in a last-minute bid to safeguard the historic law from being struck down by the High Court. But marriage equality advocates were warning the government on Monday night that the bill was likely to be...
by Carol Burger | Oct 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
In response to reports this morning which indicate the Abbott government intends to challenge the ACT marriage equality law in the High Court, acting director of Australian Marriage Equality, Ivan Hinton, said, “Based on the expert constitutional legal advice we have...
by Jen | Sep 19, 2013 | AME media releases, News
Marriage equality advocates have challenged Prime Minister, Tony Abbott’s, assertion that “the Commonwealth has responsibility for marriage” by pointing out a NSW report which has said such a view is “an error of fact”. Mr Abbott made the...