by Carol Burger | Aug 7, 2013 | AME Talks, Australian news
The Australian Marriage Equality lobby group will this week launch a website dedicated to exposing the position of every candidate in the election to give people a guide on “how to vote for marriage equality”. The strategy — to be funded partly by...
by Jen | May 8, 2013 | Australian commentary, Australian news, News
ONE of the Coalition MPs targeted by gay marriage campaigners has declared his support for a concience vote in the next parliament, despite not supporting gay marriage himself. Josh Frydenberg, who holds the blue-ribbon Melbourne seat of Kooyong, yesterday told The...
by John | Feb 20, 2012 | Australian commentary
By Jacqui Tomlins, Melbourne-based marriage equality campaigner. Follow her blog here. Last week I went to a benefit for the former Baptist minister from Lilydale, Matt Glover. Some of you might have read about him in The Age at the end of last year. In November, Matt...
by John | Sep 5, 2011 | Australian news, News
GAY couples should be able to marry with the federal government’s blessing, according to Prahran MP Clem Newton-Brown. But opinions on the issue are divided among his fellow Liberal politicians in the inner-east. An informal poll conducted to gauge community opinion...
by John | Aug 31, 2011 | Australian news, News
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...