Posts tagged ACT Legislative Assembly

Australia’s first openly gay leader of a state or territory government has become the first to enter into a same-sex marriage, in another political first …

Men in the ACT will now be able to have their historic consensual homosexual offences cleared from their records, however some advocates are still calling for a formal apology.

The ACT’s upcoming bill to clear historic convictions of consensual homosexual activities prior to its decriminalisation has been welcomed, but questions have been raised on whether it will properly “expunge” them.