Posts tagged Referendum

Despite their pivotal roles in Australia’s marriage equality campaign, figures such as RODNEY CROOME AM, SHELLEY ARGENT OAM, IVAN HINTON-TEOH OAM and others have been …

The result has no direct legal bearing on a 2017 court ruling which gave legislators two years to amend laws to allow same-sex couples to marry, but advocates say the public opposition is a blow to the campaign.

Advocates say same-sex marriage will only be possible in Romania if they “can get rid of the plague that is eating the country alive, the Socialist Democratic Party”.

Anti-LGBTI campaigners had called for the referendum “to protect, at a constitutional level, the definition of marriage – between one woman and one man”.

‘I hope no other country has to go through that as it was a dark time to be a LGBTI person’

The LGBTI community has already faced a lot of hate during the debate on marriage equality and the plebiscite hasn’t even been confirmed. Should we just give in and agree to a plebiscite?

The Star Observer spoke with pop royalty B*Witched about the plebiscite, LGBTI rights, and their upcoming trip down under.

THE number of young people coming out in Ireland has increased by almost 40 per cent since a referendum for marriage equality passed a year ago.

Forty parents have travelled to the national capital to protest at the lack of a free vote on marriage equality as a cross-party bill is debated and despatched in less than 10 minutes.

Leichhardt federal Liberal-National MP Warren Entsch’s bill makes it to the floor of the house but unlikely to get much further with conscience vote blocked by Coalition.