Rudd to face new marriage campaign
Australian same-sex marriage activists are poised to use the Rudd Government’s new Human Rights Framework to push forward same-sex marriage rights.
Federal Attorney-General Robert McClelland last week announced the Government would establish a Joint
Parliamentary Committee for Human Rights and implement a Statement of Compatibility to go with each new bill introduced to Parliament to ensure legislation complies with seven core international human rights treaties which Australia has signed.
Australian Marriage Equality national convenor Alex Greenwich said Australia’s ban on same-sex marriage must be reviewed immediately.
“Courts around the world have found that laws which prohibit marriages between same-sex couples are in breach of fundamental human rights,” he told Sydney Star Observer.
“At the earliest opportunity we will ask the new human rights committee to consider these decisions and rule our discriminatory marriage laws to be a human rights violation.”
Australian Coalition for Equality spokesman Corey Irlam said, coming off the back of disappointing news federal anti-discrimination legislation covering sexual orientation and gender diversity had not been addressed in the framework, the proposed new measures were a positive first step.
“Sunlight’s always the best form of antiseptic so having a forum to be able to identify the issues doesn’t guarantee our rights and doesn’t guarantee the Government won’t say, ‘Thank you, we’re going to do this anyway’,” he said.
“What it does do, however, is ensure there is a voice for the issues to be raised, there’s an appropriate mechanism for them to be discussed. As to whether it’s going to be a good outcome, we actually need to wait and see what they deliver.”
The parliamentary committee — involving both Houses of Parliament — will have the power to investigate existing laws and bills as well as initiate wider inquiries into human rights. Australian Human Rights Commission president
Catherine Branson said the Attorney-General’s announcement would rightly focus the Government’s attention on Australia’s international human rights obligations.
Branson said she hoped the changes would force Parliament to deal with human rights upfront, rather than in “an ad hoc way after the event”.
“Human rights are not political tools and should be considered in a bipartisan way,” she said.
“We believe a joint committee is one of the most effective mechanisms Parliament can use to achieve this.”
Branson has been appointed to serve on the Administrative Review Council which gives advice to the federal Attorney-General on matters of federal administrative law.
Iceland has just become the 10th nation on earth to allow gay marriage by a unanimous 46-0 vote in the unicameral House.
http://www.icenews.is/index.php/2010/06/11/iceland-parliament-votes-for-gay-marriage/
We here in Australia are now being looked at in 2010 as if we are a bunch of bigoted redneck dinosaurs!!!!
Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott foul the air that we breathe with vile support for Hate Groups that seek to cause us harm and violence. If you have ever experienced homophobia you will know the sense of disgust that is the result of this support. The pain and misery left by the reckless indulgence of these two leaders is a disgrace to all good people everywhere.
We do not deserve such misery that they seek to bestow onto us. The doctrine of exclusion preached at every legal Marriage in Australia, “That Marriage is a union of a man and woman to the exclusion of all others”, weakens us all. The attempt to censor our relationships in the ACT by excluding a “Marriage like celebration”, when we have a Civil Union is tragic blight on Australia. 58 bits of discrimination removed has become the rhetoric used by Kevin Rudd against anyone who dares to dream of an Australia free of discrimination. We ask what about the remaining discrimination, when will that end? Why does our community have to suffer further insult, with censorship of the internet that will stop talk of illegal activity such as Same Sex Marriage? This nasty social engineering seeks to deny us our basic rights and freedoms, to even talk about the discrimination and how to end it.
All of us matter and are important. We are not deserving of our current political leaders lack of morality and respect. Some talk of building a bridge. This could start with a Sorry Day. A Day when Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbot acknowledge the cruelty inflicted on us by our governments in the name of Jesus.
Ben- I do not accept the discrimination that still exist as far as Federal Equal Oppportunity legislation goes. All of us should not. And what about the bill of rights? When it looked like we might get some protection Kevin Rudd dropped it.
My advice- Do not support a political party that promotes groups in the community that seek to incite hate and violence towards us. Having lost my frist great love to Gay Bashers inspired by the Hate of nutty Christian groups, I have seen first hand the damage such groups do. They do not need Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott to help promote the hate they stand for. I have every right to be outraged such leaders are giving a voice to the Australian Christian Lobby and the likes of Cardinal George Pell.
What about Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott going to Mardi Gras? Hundreds of thousands of people line the streets. I guess as far as Labor and Liberal go these good people do not count.
Dave, you are as shrill and obsessed as the ACL. There are far worse out there.
And btw, your historic issue with the Federal medical award would not happen today because of the 58/08 changes introduced by Rudd.
My advice? Build a bridge and…
I would like to add Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott are about to attend the hate group the Australian Christian Lobby. They are debating who can discriminate the most by the looks of it. All this sponsored by Gloria Geans Coffee.
Why does Liberal and Labor think supporting a Christian Hate Cult that openly lies and vilifies us makes us want to vote for them? The Australian Christian Lobby has just three owners. Yet they get way to much attention from our Happy Clapper Prime Minister. Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott openly support the hate and violence that the lies from the ALC bring to our community I guess.
http://webcast.australiavotes.org/
Fucking hateful scum the lot of them if you ask me.
Not long ago Aborigies in Australia were refused permission to marry anyone they wanted to. Today all Australians would think it abhorent to refuse someone the right to marry the person they were in love with (except if you are gay of course)
Do Rudd, Abbott, Brown et al read any of the gay papers? The sso’s inclusion of Dino is a clever tactical decision in our favour. Who could not be repulsed by that creatures’ mutterings? Dino for next year’s lead Mardi Gras float! (can ya just see it?)ROFPML.
Love from Hell xoxoxo
Duane- The Greens have strong record on doing things for our community. They have supported myself and my partner when Tony Abbott refused to ammend a Federal Medical Award. Doctors are forced to work in country hospitals for three months to six months during trainning. The hospital demanded to see our Marriage Certificate. As we could not get one they refused accommodation saying we had to pay for a hotel as we were homosexual. It was reported in the Melbourne Star Observer at the time.
Tony Abbott and the Labor Party refused to help. Julie Gillard sent me a letter about what Labor is doing for nurses. My partner is a doctor and our complaint was about discrimination. How stupid can you be. And people think she will be gay friendly?
The Greens stepped in with no publicity and got the Award changed.
I got the media involved at the time, and the Greens did not ask or request it. They totally support our community. Both Liberal and Labor still do not support changing the Federal Equal Opportunity Act to support us all these years on.
I say fuck Liberal and fuck Labor. Fuck the discrimination they offer. I am looking forward to the Greens getting the balance of power in the senate.
Australia was a signatory to the UN convention against genocide but continued to remove aboriginal children from their parents for many years after signing the convention.
An element of genocide identified by the UN was the separation of families.
The process and procedure that AG McClelland is setting up does not guarantee a bill will be passed.
It is a process and procedure to block the introduction of bills that have elemements that do not comply with seven core international treaties.
That verification would require an immense effort.
Apparently treaties in themselves are not binding on the parliament until parliament introduces legislation including the terms of the treaty into Australian law.
Even if all that was done AG McClelland has not said that his party would vote for any particular bill.
Even if a bill complies with the seven core treaties there is no committment to enact the bill.
I just literally LOL’d as I read ‘Dino’s’ comments. It has to be a really naff joke, right? That, or something’s brought out all the loonies today.
Although, I do love a man who talks dirty.
Dino, did this year’s primary school second term finish early or are you using the school’s computer?
Michael Jones.
Haha. Nice.
Dino – Jesus supported Gay Marriage. Get over it. I guess you are going to Hell as you do not support what Jesus wanted.
http://www.whywouldwe.net/site
By the way Dave, I have emailed Bob Browne to see where their preferences will go at the next election – you may think you are voting for a group which mind you could hold all legislation up in the Senate until such opportunities were passed (same sex marriage civil unions and the like) but I do not have a response as yet…..You could be voting for the Christian lobby by stealth!
Poor Dino; playing the hetero must be so time consuming and remove so much energy from his dull life. Many straight men like him have been in my bed over the last twenty years (I grew up in a sailor town and they were all at it at the local beat on Thursday nights!). But it is strange that Rudd does not have the guts to introduce same sex marriage or civil unions legislation as an option in Australia like his counterparts have in NZ, Canada and the UK did, as well as other forward thinking countries around the world. I don’t see their skies falling in or society falling apart. Just the ability for citizens of those countries to have the same rights to be able to express their love as any one else. But Howard (oops I mean Rudd) wants to cling to some romantic notion that to have a legally binding partnership in the form of a marriage or civil union is only exclusively available to this section of society, but not that. We need to bring this back to the front of the 70 odd percent of Australian’s that don
Fortunately for you dino i support you option to breed more idiot children, marry your sister or grand mother and breed further inbreds, quite obviously you are sexually repressed and can only get off by leaving messages such as the above on web pages.
The funny thing is you seem to not know that aids affects hetero and homo sexuals with the hetro sexual infection rate now far greater than the homosexual infection rate.
What you also dont seem to understand is that our “so called perversion” is a natural instinct all living creatures engage in same sex relationships.
Just because your fictional book known as the bible speaks against it, however your perversion can easily be cured, by a dose of knowledge.
I hope you live a fruitful life away from society so that your poison will slowly kill you from within, this will only seek to ensure your views die along with you and do not poison the vibrant clear waters of our lives.
Enjoy your closet dino, seems you will spend a long long time in there.
should not all you faggotts be worried about finding a cure for your perversion rather than worry about two poofs or box biters being hitched and what about aids anal injected death sentance
Editor’s Note: Ahh Dino, feeling a little insecure about your own sexuality are you? Thought you’d make your point by posting anonymously on a gay new site? Must make you feel proud! Readers?
What is the current difference between the Federal Liberal Party and the Labor Party on our rights? Both do not support Federal Equal Opportunity Protection. Both are run by Loopy Happy Clapper Christians. Both support discrimination and give money the Australian Christian Lobby.
I say Fuck Liberal and Labor, I am voting Green.