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  • rainbow tasmania
    “Small win” after local elections

    Marriage equality advocates are remaining positive after last weekend’s Tasmanian Upper House election results which saw no effective movement towards candidates who support for same-sex marriage. Tasmanians took to the polls on Saturday for the three Upper...

    • Posted 18 days ago
  • Delaware
    Another US state gets marriage equality

    Delaware may have been the first state to ratify the US Constitution but it has become the 11th state to legalise same-sex marriage. The state’s Senate passed a same-sex marriage bill on Tuesday with 12 votes to...

    • Posted 18 days ago
  • tony abbott-web
    Mixed messages on marriage free vote?

    Federal Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has extinguished growing speculation of same-sex marriage laws passing in the next Parliament if elected in September. He told Fairfax Media at the weekend he did not anticipate “much enthusiasm” to revisit...

    • Posted 19 days ago
  • labor
    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 23 days ago
  • simon copland 420x470
    No sense in opposition to marriage equality vote

    Monday saw an interesting uproar after independent MP Tony Windsor suggested a popular vote on marriage equality at the next election. Windsor suggested that a plebiscite could be held in conjunction with the vote to recognise local...

    • Posted 24 days ago
  • nz-lgbt-marriage
    Why we should celebrate the NZ decision

    This week New Zealand became the latest country, and the first in the Pacific region, to legalise same-sex marriage. I am thrilled that half my friends in mixed-race marriages (Kiwis and Aussies) and all my friends in...

    • Posted 32 days ago
  • barry
    O’Farrell supports marriage equality

    NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell has publicly declared his support for marriage equality. Speaking to The Sydney Morning Herald, O’Farrell said that while he would prefer for marriage equality to be legalised through federal Parliament, he would vote...

    • Posted 37 days ago
  • Helen Westwood
    NSW not ready for gay marriage: MP

    NSW Upper House MP Helen Westwood said she is unconvinced marriage equality has a chance of making it through NSW Parliament, despite New Zealand’s legalisation of same-sex marriage on Wednesday. Speaking to ABC Radio on Thursday, Westwood...

    • Posted 38 days ago
  • DLA featured
    All you need is love

    With rapper Macklemore’s same-sex marriage anthem Same Love a recent Aussie number one, local rapper D’LA is following suit with her own take on the issue, Where Is The Love. The Black Eyed Peas-sampling track is an...

    • Posted 38 days ago
  • nz
    Aussie advocates welcome NZ marriage win

    The passage of New Zealand’s same-sex marriage bill was met with thunderous applause last night as it passed with 77 votes to 44. Hundreds of gay marriage advocates in the public gallery then broke out into song,...

    • Posted 38 days ago
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