by Alex Greenwich | Jul 27, 2011 | Australian news, News
The Australian Rainbow Labor Network expresses its sincere disappointment in comments about marriage equality made by John Murphy, Labor Member for Reid, yesterday. Speaking to presenter Fran Kelly on ABC Radio National, Mr Murphy opined that voters in Western Sydney...
by Alex Greenwich | Jul 27, 2011 | AME media releases, Australian news, News
Marriage Equality Advocates have rejected the claims made by Senior Labor Backbencher, John Murphy, where he has called on those who support marriage equality within the ALP to “join the Greens”, that a referendum be called on the matter, and that his...
by Alex Greenwich | Jul 26, 2011 | Australian commentary
This week in New York the hottest ticket in town is not the latest Broadway musical or the opening of hip new restaurant, it’s the Marriage Bureau. So many same-sex couples have been waiting for the day when they can say “I do” that a lottery system has had to be...
by Alex Greenwich | Jul 26, 2011 | Australian commentary
Leave it to a woman who wears a meat dress to put Australia’s volatile political landscape into perspective writes Phil Scott: Two women spoke up on the issue of same-sex marriage recently, and they were both gaga. The first was Lady Gaga, the internationally famous...
by Alex Greenwich | Jul 25, 2011 | Australian commentary, Overseas commentary
Australian journalist, Harley Dennett, writes from New York: Some of the 823 same-s-x couples who entered the lottery to wed in New York on Sunday chose not to wait until dawn. Niagara Falls’ famous cascades were lit up in rainbow lights as grandmothers Kitty...