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  • PM sets dinner date

    Prime Minister Julia Gillard has finally set a date for a dinner with three same-sex couples that was won by progressive activist group GetUp at a Canberra press gallery charity auction in June this year. GetUp spent...

    • Posted 529 days ago
  • We’ve only just begun

    Saturday’s decision by the Australian Labor Party to include marriage equality in it’s party platform was a bittersweet one. The recognition of same-sex relationships in the party’s official policy is indeed a momentus step. It is just...

    • Posted 535 days ago
  • Marriage vote in 2012

    Labor advocates for marriage equality have announced that a private members bill to reform the Marriage Act will be moved from within Labor ranks when Parliament resumes next year. Port Adelaide MP Mark Butler (pictured) and Senator...

    • Posted 540 days ago
  • Gillard makes last minute appeal

    Prime Minister Julia Gillard has acknowledged the Labor Party platform will most likely change to support same-sex marriage in a vote at tomorrow’s National Conference, according to news reports. The Australian newspaper claims Gillard has met with...

    • Posted 541 days ago
  • A puppet on a string

    A new agenda item has been added to this weekend’s Labor Party National Conference at late notice. It is proposed that the 1961 federal Marriage Act and its 2004 amendments — essentially, one bloke, one sheila; nil...

    • Posted 542 days ago
  • Minogue shines at ARIAS

    Australia’s superstar gay icon Kylie Minogue is now a member of the Australian Recording Industry’s Hall of Fame. Minogue was last night inducted into the ARIA’s first home of Australian music by Prime Minister Julia Gillard. In...

    • Posted 546 days ago
  • PM to honour Kylie

    The Australian Prime Minister who refuses to allow same-sex couples to marry will induct the country’s greatest gay icon into the ARIA Hall of Fame on Sunday. Julia Gillard has been charged with bestowing the Australian music...

    • Posted 549 days ago
  • Gillard delays dinner deal to 2012

    Prime Minister Julia Gillard has postponed a dinner she pledged to have with progressive activist group GetUp and same-sex couples who want to be married into 2012 – well after the ALP National Conference where the issue...

    • Posted 549 days ago
  • PM’s conscience won’t be clear

    There are five people in my immediate family — my parents, my brother and my partner of almost 13 years. My partner and I both have full-time jobs and pay a significant amount of tax each year...

    • Posted 558 days ago
  • Targeted HIV funding needed

    Australia’s peak HIV organisation has called on the Gillard Government to revise its HIV aid funding in the Asia Pacific region to better target at-risk population groups. The move follows calls by US Secretary of State Hillary...

    • Posted 558 days ago
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