by Alex Greenwich | Mar 26, 2011 | Australian news, News
Speaking at an event hosted by GLBTI rights lobby group Stonewall, British Home Secretary Theresa May promised action on allowing full same-sex marriage in the UK. In what was her first major speech on GLBTI issues, May discussed the Government’s plan to remove the...
by Alex Greenwich | Mar 26, 2011 | Australian commentary
In the Sydney Morning Herald, Michelle Griffin writes it is time to privatise marriage: Why is marriage legal? Or rather: why does the government have to make it legal? The Marriage Act, says Julia Gillard, has ”a special status”. The Prime Minister is...
by Alex Greenwich | Mar 24, 2011 | Australian news, News
The GLBT community is being urged to make their voices heard after a petition against same-sex marriage containing more than 16,000 signatures was tabled in the Senate. Tasmanian Liberal Senator Guy Barnett today tabled 16,506 petitions in support of marriage as...
by Alex Greenwich | Mar 23, 2011 | Australian commentary
On the Punch website Dr Kerryn Phelps writes: What a week it has been for the Prime Minister of our nation, Our Lady of the Lodge, the Very Reverend Julia “Traditional Values” Gillard. Let me get this “straight”…if you’ll pardon the expression. Our first female Prime...
by Alex Greenwich | Mar 23, 2011 | Australian news, News
Leave it to a Same Same 25er to ask a highly pertinent question on the ABC’s Q&A show! Melbourne’s out funnyman Josh Thomas put smiles on many faces when he popped up with a video question during last night’s live program: “Yesterday our Atheist, female,...
