by John | Jan 30, 2012 | Australian news, News
A national television commercial featuring parents and grandparents talking about why they want marriage equality will screen across the country from today, as advocates dismissed the latest call from the likes of Liberal MP Warren Entsch for a national civil union...
by John | Jan 30, 2012 | AME media releases, News
Marriage equality advocates have dismissed moves for a national civil union scheme as “unnecessary, damaging and impractical”. They were responding to reports that Coalition whip, Warren Entsch, and his government counterpart, Joel Fitzgibbon, are drafting...
by John | Jan 30, 2012 | Australian news, News
CHIEF government Whip Joel Fitzgibbon and his opposition counterpart, Warren Entsch, have discussed jointly sponsoring legislation for same-sex civil unions amid speculation any move for full marriage equality will fail. Mr Entsch, a longtime parliamentary campaigner...
by John | Dec 9, 2011 | Australian news, News
North Queensland Liberal MP Warren Entsch will not support same-sex marriage legislation when it’s introduced into federal Parliament next year. The Member for Leichhardt, who this year launched the Parliamentary Friends of LGBTIs with Greens Senator Sarah...
by John | Sep 14, 2011 | Australian news, News
CANBERRA: In what was unanimously agreed to be a historic occasion, the nation’s first Parliamentary Friendship Group for LGBTI Australians held its inaugural gathering at a reception inside Parliament House last night, drawing a great number of leading politicians...