Posts tagged Penny Wong

Everyone in the Senate except the kitchen sink voted against going ahead with a vote on marriage equality this week.

A new Essential Poll — which usually delivers lower levels of support than other polls — shows marriage equality support has grown to 64 per cent.

A petition supporting the Safe Schools program garnered twice as many signatures as one that opposed it in just two days.

The Nationals’ membership base have rejected the notion of a plebiscite on marriage equality, according to the AME.

Ahead of a community forum on the future of rainbow families in Australia as part of Midsumma Festival, we spoke to a couple of the panelists about their thoughts on the challenges they face.

Trent Zimmerman has become the first ever openly gay MP to be elected into the House of Representatives in Federal Parliament.

Ahead of his maiden speech in the Senate yesterday, Elias Jahshan had a chat with newly-sworn in and openly gay South Australian Greens Senator Robert Simms about some of the LGBTI issues he’d like to address at a federal level.

Former Prime Minister Julia Gillard has changed her mind on marriage equality, two years after she left Australia’s highest office.

The backlash on the Abbott Government for the failure to adopt a conscience vote on marriage equality continues.

A wrap-up of today’s same-sex marriage debate between senators Penny Wong and Cory Bernardi at the National Press Club of Australia in Canberra.