Posts Tagged ‘same-sex’

Rann in push to legalise same-sex marriage

SOUTH Australian Premier Mike Rann has demanded that same-sex marriage be made legal, challenging the Gillard government to change the commonwealth Marriage Act and describing anything less as a “halfway house”. With just weeks left in office, the longest-serving of the current premiers and one-time ALP national president, last night invoked the views of his […]

Tasmanian same-sex vote to put pressure on federal Labor

GAY activists say yesterday’s vote by Tasmania’s lower house calling for gay marriage — the first in an Australia parliament — will build pressure on federal Labor ahead of its national conference. State Labor MPs backed a Greens motion calling on the Gillard government to change the federal Marriage Act to allow same-sex couples to […]

Tasmania Parliament first to vote in favour of same-sex marriage

THE Tasmanian Parliament is set to become the first in Australia to vote in favour of same-sex marriage after Premier Lara Giddings indicated she would support a Greens motion on the issue. Greens leader Nick McKim will today table a motion in support of marriage equality and calling on the Federal Government to reform marriage […]

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