SAME+ blog: Friends and enemies

By Jacqui Tomlins, Melbourne-based marriage equality campaigner. Follow her blog here. It’s been an interesting couple of weeks in Marriage Equality land with some nice, and some nasty, stuff in the media – and not all of it coming from the places you’d expect. In my...

Petitions for Marriage Equality

Below is a list of petitions currently running around Australia. If you don’t know your electorate, click here. To start a petition for your own electorate (not already listed), click here. For assistance with wording the petition to comply with parliamentary...

SAME+ Blog: To the Honourable Speaker …

Here’s a thought… Imagine if one same sex couple took their cause up with their local MP and called on them to support Marriage Equality. Imagine if family, friends and colleagues got behind that couple and helped put pressure on that local MP. Imagine if the broader...

Higgins MP supports civil unions

SAME-SEX marriage is out, but civil unions could be in, says Higgins Liberal MP Kelly O’Dwyer. Ms O’Dwyer addressed Parliament on gay marriage last week, backing the Coalition’s position that marriage should be between a man and a woman, but said civil unions should...