by Jen | Dec 7, 2013 | Australian news, News
Regardless of how the High Court rules next week on the validity of the ACT’s same-sex marriage law, marriage equality advocates know they have had an historic victory. Pictures of same sex-couples getting married in Canberra will be seen around Australia and...
by Jen | Dec 5, 2013 | Australian news, News
Australia’s first same-sex weddings can take place this weekend after the nation’s highest court decided to rule next week on the law allowing same-sex marriage in the national capital. The Australian Capital Territory government, which administers...
by Carol Burger | Dec 4, 2013 | Uncategorized
THIS week is the most momentous in the history of the Australian marriage equality movement. Yesterday the High Court heard the case for and against the ACT’s Marriage Equality Act. On Saturday, as the court won’t deliver its a verdict until 12 December, the first...
by Jen | Dec 2, 2013 | Australian commentary, Australian news, News
Virginia Edwards (left), 56, and Christine Forster, 49, met when their sons attended the same preschool. They left their respective husbands to be together and are now engaged. Virginia’s story I still remember the day Chris and I met. I was dropping off my son...
by Jen | Nov 24, 2013 | Australian news, News
About 200 supporters of same-sex marriage rallied under rainbow umbrellas in central Sydney as the ACT’s same-sex marriage laws are being challenged in the High Court by the government. The ACT’s gay marriage laws were to come into effect formally on...
