by Alex Greenwich | Jul 25, 2011 | News, World news
Hundreds of gay couples have wed in New York after it became the sixth and most populous state in the US to recognise same-sex unions as legal. Newly-weds brandished their marriage certificates as ceremonies were held from Manhattan to Niagara Falls. Civil rights...
by Alex Greenwich | Jul 24, 2011 | Australian commentary
Tim Wilson argues the extension of marriage to same-sex couples needn’t come at the expense of a stable society or religious human rights: In its fashionably early 1996 article on opening marriage to same-sex couples The Economist magazine correctly argued...
by Alex Greenwich | Jul 24, 2011 | Australian news, News
Deputy Chief Minister Andrew Barr is going to personally lead a new push by ACT Labor for national reforms to allow gay marriage. And Mr Barr says that generational change in the Australian Labor Party is bringing Australia’s same-sex couples ever closer to full...
by Alex Greenwich | Jul 24, 2011 | Australian commentary
James Vigus argues that the same-sex marriage campaign is the civil-rights issue of our time: And most people now support full equality for gays and lesbians. Hundreds of thousands of Australians are proudly out; virtually everyone today knows someone – a work...
by Alex Greenwich | Jul 24, 2011 | Australian news, News
Attitudes to same-sex marriages in Australia have dramatically changed, according to a new survey. A poll of 1052 adult Australians conducted in May by Galaxy Research revealed 62 per cent of Australians support gay marriage, outweighing the number of people opposed...
