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Australia: Union Members do End Run Around Leader on Marriage Equality

Monday, April 2nd, 2012

SDA Members and Marriage EqualityMembers of the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association (SDA), controlled by powerful union boss and vocal same-sex marriage opponent, Joe de Bruyn, have sent a submission in support of the reform to the current Senate inquiry into marriage equality.

Submissions to the inquiry being held by the Senate legal and constitutional affairs committee into Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young’s Marriage Equality Amendment Bill 2010 close today.

SDA Members for Equality sent in a submission supportive of marriage equality having only formed in recent months in the wake of comments by de Bruyn, the union’s national secretary, warning that gay marriage would lead to the end of civilization.

Full Story from GNN

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Australia: 45,000 Tell Senate They Support Marriage Equality

Monday, April 2nd, 2012

Australia Marriage Equality and the SenateMore than 45,000 Australians have told a Senate inquiry that they support same sex marriage, the lobby group Australian Marriage Equality (AME) says.

A Senate committee is examining the Marriage Equality Amendment Bill 2012, proposed by the Greens and independent MP Andrew Wilkie, that would allow same sex couples to wed. It’s due to report to Parliament on June 18.

AME’s national convener Alex Greenwich said at least 45,000 people had made submissions to the inquiry supporting same sex marriage. The submissions were made via AME’s website and that of political group GetUp.

Full Story from 9 MSN

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Australia: Marriage Equality Bill Shows Divided Opinions in Churches

Sunday, April 1st, 2012

Australian Churches and Marriage EqualityDifferences within Christian communities over gay marriage are being brought to the surface by a Senate inquiry into a Greens bill to permit same-sex marriages.

Catholic Archbishop of Sydney Cardinal George Pell has made a submission to the inquiry supporting the traditional definition of marriage.

But two of Sydney’s most high-profile Catholic women – Kristina Keneally and Clover Moore – have put in their own submissions disagreeing with their Archbishop.

Full Story from The Canberra Times

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Australia: Catholic Church Calls on Parishoners to Fight Marriage Equality in Victoria

Thursday, March 29th, 2012

Catholic Church and Australia Marriage EqualitySIX Catholic bishops in Victoria will circulate 80,000 letters this weekend asking their parishioners to show the Federal Government their opposition to same sex marriage. There are currently three gay marriage private member’s bills before Federal Parliament, aimed at changing the legal definition of marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

The bishops want all Catholics to contact their MPs and respond to an online survey being conducted by the Federal Parliament Standing Committee of Social Policy and Legal Affairs. The Bishop of Sale, Christopher Prowse, said it would be a grave mistake with implications for the future of society should the legal definition of marriage be changed.

“We have asked Catholics to seriously reflect and pray about the ramifications for current and future generations of legislation which completely redefines marriage,” Bishop Prowse said.

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Queensland, Australia: Does LNP Still Plan to Repeal Civil Unions?

Wednesday, March 28th, 2012

Queensland Civil Unions RepealConfusion reigns over the fate of civil unions in Queensland after the release of Campbell Newman’s blueprint for his first 100 days of government.

The Liberal National Party (LNP) released the action plan several days before Saturday’s sweeping election victory.

Newman had previously promised he would “immediately” look at civil unions if the LNP were elected.
The document details action on the LNP’s 4 percent unemployment target, initiatives to lower the cost of living, establishing a Commission of Audit to assess the state’s finances, taking action on the Bruce Highway, establishing a ‘Mums and Bubs’ service, recruiting more police and removing Labor’s $7000 stamp duty.

Full Story from The Star Observer

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Australia: Mass Gay Wedding Aired on TV

Wednesday, March 28th, 2012

When Melbourne resident Elyse James sat down in the studio audience of one of Australia’s evening talk shows, “Adam Hills in Gordon St. Tonight,” in February, she had no idea that her girlfriend of eight months, Rebecca Edwards, would be proposing that night.

Days before the show, James filled out a survey sent by the talk show’s producers asking audience members one question: “If you were prime minister for a day, what law would you change or introduce?” James wrote that she would legalize same-sex marriage — currently not recognized in Australia — in hopes of one day marrying her girlfriend.

Later that week, the host of the show, popular Aussie comedian Adam Hills, called James’ girlfriend to ask if she would be willing to propose to James on an upcoming episode of “Adam Hills.”

Full Story from the Huffington Post

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Queensland, Australia: Repeal of Civil Unions Could Wind Up in Court

Sunday, March 25th, 2012

Queensland Civil Unions RepealQUEENSLAND gay and lesbian community could seek legal action against the new Liberal National Party (LNP) government if it repeals civil union legislation.

Premier-elect Campbell Newman announced during the election campaign that he would consider repealing same-sex civil union laws introduced by Labor last year.

But Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays spokeswoman Shelley Argent said the gay and lesbian community would fight tooth and nail against any repeal.

Full Story from The Australian

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Australia: Senate Releases Arguments For/Against Marriage Equality

Monday, March 19th, 2012

Australia Marriage EqualityAltering the definition of marriage to allow same-sex couples to wed would be the equivalent of defining sheep stations as lighthouses, a Senate committee has been told.

The first 70 of what are expected to be thousands of submissions to an inquiry into a Greens bill to legalise gay marriage have been publicly released.

Newcastle University senior law lecturer Neil Foster told the inquiry that any attempt by Parliament to change the nature of marriage by allowing weddings between same-sex partners would be unconstitutional. “The constitutional power over lighthouses, for example, cannot be used to regulate sheep stations by defining a sheep station as a lighthouse,” Mr Foster said in his submission.

Full Story from The Canberra Times

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Australia: LNP Wants to Downgrade Queensland’s Civil Unions to a Domestic Partner Registry

Monday, March 19th, 2012

Queensland Marriage Equality RepealThe civil unions bill could morph into a relationships registry under an LNP government in a left-field move a top lawyer believes is being seriously considered.

LNP leader Campbell Newman has refused to say exactly what he will do with the civil unions bill introduced last year if he wins government on Saturday.

Mr Newman has said the LNP would like to repeal the bill, but insisted he did not want to leave couples already in civil unions in “legal limbo”.

Full Story from the Brisbane Times

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Australia: Anti Marriage Equality Truck Vandalized With Paint and Glitter

Monday, March 19th, 2012

Australia Anti Gay TruckSupporters of Christian Democrat Peter Madden will today help him clean his anti-gay marriage truck that was vandalised in Lismore.

The truck, which has billboard-sized anti-gay marriage messages printed on its trailer, was parked in Cathcart Street on Saturday night.

Protesters in favour of gay marriage vandalised the truck yesterday with paint and glitter. Two protesters also chained themselves to the truck and had to be removed by police.

Full Story from ABC

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