by John | Feb 14, 2013 | Australian news, News, Overseas marriages & Australian civil unions, World news
Wallabies flanker David Pocock has given his backing to same-sex marriage in Australia as social media users urge political leaders to follow the lead of British MPs in supporting gay couples’ right to wed. British MPs voted 400 to 175 in favour of the Marriage...
by John | Feb 14, 2013 | Australian news, News, Overseas marriages & Australian civil unions, World news
Two women wanted to marry — one Texan (no gay marriage there), the other Australian (nor there). So how did the British help them tie the knot in Cambodia (not allowed there, either), even before the UK vote this week that paved the way for gay marriage? Continue...
by John | Feb 14, 2013 | Australian news, News, Overseas marriages & Australian civil unions, World news
A TASMANIAN couple want to wait to marry in Tasmania rather than in the United Kingdom. David Samson is Scottish but became an Australian citizen soon after he arrived in the country 22 years ago. He had met Australian partner Kevin O’Loghlin while working in...
by John | Feb 8, 2013 | Australian news, News, Overseas marriages & Australian civil unions, Uncategorized, World news
The British House of Commons has approved gay marriage. The NSW Parliament will debate a bill embracing it. It is a reform issue which the national and Tasmanian parliaments recently squibbed. To be fair, unlike their predecessors and most states, at least they...
by John | Feb 8, 2013 | Australian news, News, Overseas marriages & Australian civil unions, World news
The Greens will introduce an updated marriage equality bill into the Senate after the British House of Commons voted in favour of extending equal marriage rights to gay and lesbian couples. The bill was passed on Tuesday in London after the Conservative Prime...
by John | Feb 7, 2013 | Australian news, News, Overseas marriages & Australian civil unions, World news
A conservative Prime Minister has stared down the critics in his own party, allowed a conscience vote and is now on the cusp of introducing equal marriage rights for gay and lesbian couples in England and Wales. Tuesday’s vote in the House of Commons has...
