Posts tagged Marriage Act

Questions around the legality of state and territory-based marriage equality could be answered as soon as the end of this week, as both the ACT …

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd made a significant commitment to marriage quality in last night’s leadership debate against Opposition Leader Tony Abbott, promising to put the …

The Senate inquiry into Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young’s Marriage Equality Amendment Bill is now taking submissions, with the inquiry set to report back as soon …

Marriage equality advocates are hopeful they can win the issue in the courts after two prominent lawyers from opposite sides of the debate agreed that …

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 …

Marriage equality advocates have moved to quell fears about calls to reform the Marriage Act by reiterating that churches will not be made to perform …

Despite Australia’s ban on gay marriage, married same-sex couples will this year be counted in the Australian Census for the first time. Marriage equality lobby …

In 2004 John Howard and Labor amended the Marriage Act by adding: “Marriage means the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion …

In the wake of polling showing 75 percent of Australians believe same-sex marriage is inevitable, the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has expressed concern over …

ACT Chief Minister John Stanhope has given further weight to the argument that same-sex marriage could be legislated for by states if the Federal Government …