by John | Mar 1, 2013 | News, Overseas marriages & Australian civil unions, Uncategorized, World news
WASHINGTON: The Obama administration is asking the Supreme Court to overturn California’s ban on gay marriage and take a sceptical view of similar bans elsewhere, wading into a case that could have broad implications for the right of same-sex couples to wed. The...
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 | Aug 15, 2012 | Uncategorized
Prime Minister Julia Gillard has shocked large sections of the LGBTI community after agreeing to deliver the keynote speech at the Australian Christian Lobby’s (ACL) national conference in Canberra later this year. The conference to take place at Canberra’s Hyatt...
by John | Aug 5, 2012 | Uncategorized
The following media release was issued by the Tasmanian Gay & Lesbian Rights Group (TGLRG) on 5.08.2012: — TASMANIAN GAY AND LESBIAN RIGHTS GROUP www.tasunited.org Media Release Sunday August 5th 2012 COMMUNITY CELEBRATES GIDDING’S COMMITMENT TO...
by John | Aug 3, 2012 | Uncategorized
Meet Emma Bust – wife, mother of two… and straight mate to Toowoomba’s LGBTI community. Emma was raised Catholic with a strong belief of “do unto others as you would have them do to you,” but she’s since left the church “because of its hypocrisy,” she tells Same Same....
by Alex Greenwich | May 4, 2012 | AME resources, Resources, Uncategorized
The following address was delivered by AME campaign director, Rodney Croome, at the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee hearing into marriage equality on 3.5.12 Hundreds of thousands of Australians from all walks of life are excluded from one of our...
