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    Labor shows off rainbow ties

    Labor Party candidates, MPs and even ministers are putting their faces to a new online campaign highlighting the support for same-sex marriage within the party. Rainbow Labor advocates launched ‘Labor for Marriage Equality’ last month on social...

    • Posted 49 days ago
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    Labor, locals chew over gay reform

    It was a full house at Victorian Labor’s LGBTI community forum last week with more than 50 people joining the lively discussion on possible future law reforms. Opposition leader Daniel Andrews met with fellow Labor MPs and...

    • Posted 120 days ago
  • Stopping Baillieu the priority: Kanis

    Labor’s by-election candidate Jennifer Kanis said she is upset by the community angst over her ‘how-to-vote’ cards but claims she never formally preferenced the Family First party above the Greens. Kanis, an industrial relations lawyer and marriage...

    • Posted 338 days ago
  • Big expectations under new ALP platform


    The new ALP National Platform contains more than a dozen new mentions of the LGBTI community beyond same-sex marriage thanks to resolutions passed by the ALP National Conference in early December. 
 The platform will see a...

    • Posted 479 days ago
  • Gay teen’s election bid

    A 19-year-old openly gay candidate has emerged as one of the ALP’s picks for the upcoming Queensland state poll. Ryan Moore will seek election in the seat of Glass House, which covers the Sunshine Coast hinterland. A...

    • Posted 533 days ago
  • Massive poll response on ‘marriage eve’

    Hundreds of thousands of votes have been lodged in an Australian Labor Party (ALP) social media poll on marriage equality. The huge response comes just a day before federal MPs are due to speak in Parliament on...

    • Posted 668 days ago
  • Union leader’s views rejected by members

    Members of the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Union (SDA) have rejected claims today by the union’s national secretary, Joe de Bruyn, that allowing same-sex marriage will be politically disastrous for the Gillard Government, and have called...

    • Posted 679 days ago
  • NSW ALP leader to push marriage

    NSW Labor leader John Robertson will push for same-sex marriage at the party’s state conference next month. He confirmed his position on the ABC’s 7.30 program, highlighting the fact that one of his children is gay. The...

    • Posted 722 days ago
  • ACL concerned about growing marriage support

    The Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) is concerned the Labor Party may “discard its election promise on marriage” following the Queensland ALP State Conference motion calling on both the federal Labor Party and the ALP National Conference to...

    • Posted 732 days ago
  • Broad support for law reform

    The ALP and the Liberal Party have both given support for federal anti-discrimination laws to cover sexuality and gender identity, ahead of the election. Last week, federal Shadow Attorney-General George Brandis told Melbourne gay and lesbian radio...

    • Posted 1044 days ago
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