In the wake of polling showing that three quarters of Australians believe same-sex marriage in Australia is inevitable, the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has expressed concern over the Gillard Government ignoring a UN recommendation Australia move towards marriage equality.
The direction came about as part of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Australia’s human rights by the United Nations in Geneva last year.
The recommendation that Australia legalise same-sex marriage came from Norway, a country which has allowed its citizens to marry regardless of the sex of their partner since 2009.
AHRC president Catherine Branson (pictured) said the Government had accepted, or accepted in part, more than 90 per cent of recommendations made during the UPR process and had undertaken to report back in two years to the UN Human Rights Council on how it is implementing these recommendations.
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