by Jen | Sep 14, 2013 | Australian news, News
The Australian Christian Lobby will exert pressure on Tony Abbott’s new government to use its powers to override the ACT’s proposed marriage equality laws by passing a bill through both houses of federal parliament. The prime minister-elect faces an...
by Jen | Sep 13, 2013 | Australian news, News
Tony Abbott faces an immediate test on marriage equality, after the ACT Labor government yesterday declared it would introduce legislation to legalise gay marriage in the next sitting of parliament. ACT Chief Minister Katy Gallagher said her government would once...
by Jen | Sep 12, 2013 | Australian news, News
Kevin Rudd is being urged to sponsor the next marriage equality bill from the backbench, capitalising on his pledge during the election campaign to make the issue a priority in the first 100 days of a re-elected Labor government. The former prime minister’s...
by Jen | Sep 11, 2013 | Australian news, News
The stage was set. Michael and I were at a fabulous restaurant, Bridges in Ubud, Bali. We arrived to be welcomed back by the staff who remembered us from the lunch we’d had there a few days earlier. The restaurant was romantically lit, the colour scheme cream and dark...
by Jen | Sep 11, 2013 | Australian news, News
Tonight Gregory and I went to dinner at Bridges Bali, a delightful restaurant that we had lunch at last Friday. We returned because the service, food, atmosphere and location were impeccable. Quite the combination if you get it all right. Having had the entrée of rare...
by Carol Burger | Sep 11, 2013 | Australian news, News
Our son was married on July 3 – in the garden of the Palace of Versailles. The day was beautiful – high summer in Europe, flowers in bloom everywhere and possibly the most romantic location on the planet. I’m sure, as we told selected friends and...