by Alex Greenwich | Jul 18, 2011 | Australian news, News
Australia’s largest trade union, widely believed to be behind the failure of a motion to support same-sex marriage being voted on at the Australian Labor Party’s (ALP) NSW conference earlier this month, will not poll its members on the issue before the national ALP...
by Alex Greenwich | Jul 17, 2011 | Australian commentary, Overseas commentary
Cynthia Nixon has never been silent on the topic of gay marriage, and not just because she’s keen to walk down the aisle. June 24, 2011. Gay rights supporters chant and dance in the streets of New York City, kicking off days of celebration over the state...
by Alex Greenwich | Jul 16, 2011 | Australian news, News
Kevin Rudd’s sister has refused to apologise for describing a movement promoting same-sex marriage as a “global gay Gestapo”. Loree Rudd, a divorced 60-year-old nurse who lives at Nambour, said she expected people would be offended by her opposition to gay...
by Alex Greenwich | Jul 16, 2011 | Overseas commentary
Next week marks the sixth anniversary of same-sex marriage becoming legal in Canada. Six years isn’t typically a milestone anniversary; those things tend to be divisible by five. But I started thinking about it after spending last weekend reading A Radiant Life,...
by Alex Greenwich | Jul 16, 2011 | Australian news, News
The Anti Defamation Commission has joined calls for former prime minister Kevin Rudd’s sister to apologise over an anti-gay marriage remark. Loree Rudd is lobbying federal MPs and threatening to quit Labor if the party backs gay marriage at its national...
