by Jen | Jun 7, 2013 | Australian commentary, Australian news, News
THOSE speaking out for marriage equality were disappointed yesterday to hear an anti-marriage equality sign erected in Wynyard Tasmania had been vandalised. Australian Marriage Equality spokesman Rodney Croome said the vandalism did nothing for the marriage equality...
by Jen | Jun 7, 2013 | Australian commentary
Lobbying and the election Last week I spent two days in parliament house with national PFLAG spokesperson, Shelley Argent, and AME deputy director, Ivan Hinton, intensively lobbying federal members. We found support for a Coalition conscience vote is rapidly...
by Jen | Jun 7, 2013 | Australian commentary, Australian news, News
SOME advocates against marriage equality have controversially compared marriage equality with the Stolen Generations. Their case is that children are best reared by their biological parents, and the state has an interest in promoting so-called “biological...
by Jen | Jun 7, 2013 | Australian news, News
A BILL to have overseas same-sex marriages recognised in Australia will be put to the vote in the Senate by the Australian Greens before the end of June. Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young says Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Opposition Leader Tony Abbott had blocked...
by Jen | Jun 6, 2013 | AME media releases, Australian commentary, News
Marriage equality advocates have backed a Greens’ bill that will allow overseas same-sex marriages to be recognised in Australia. Australian Marriage Equality national director, Rodney Croome, said, “When Australian same-sex couples marry overseas their...
