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Tasmanian gay marriage bill defeated
Gay marriage advocates have vowed to keep campaigning as numbers mount against them in the first attempt at pioneering state-based same sex marriage.
The numbers for reform in Tasmania were lost tonight when the eighth voice against the bill was declared in the 15 member state upper house, the Legislative Council....
Sydney Morning Herald • Sep 27, 2012
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Gay marriage defeat a heartbreaker: Brown
FORMER Greens leader Bob Brown declared "hearts were broken all over Australia today" after federal parliament rejected a bill to legalise same-sex marriage.
Doctor Brown, who stepped down from his role in April, told ABC's 7.30 program the vote was a "very poor outcome for democracy and a failure for leadership". He put the blame squarely at the feet of Prime Minister Julia Gillard and oppositio...
Sydney Morning Herald • Sep 19, 2012
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Australia: Two Libs break ranks on gay marriage
The six member committee voted four to two in support of recommending changes the Marriage Act to accommodate same-sex marriages and that the bill pass with minor tweaking.
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Sydney Morning Herald • Jun 25, 2012
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Labor to fast-track gay marriage vote
Labor is trying to bring gay marriage to a parliamentary vote sooner rather than later -- probably in August -- to prevent it diverting attention from other issues and causing the government continuing grief.
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Sydney Morning Herald • Jun 19, 2012
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Same-sex marriage vote heads for defeat
The Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, will vote against gay marriage but has allowed Labor MPs a conscience vote. Number crunchers estimate about 36 of the 70 Labor MPs will vote for same-sex marriage while 10 to 15 are undecided and the rest will vote against.
Tony Abbott will not allow a conscience vote and all Coalition MPs are required to vote against same-sex marriage. Backbenchers can cross th...
Sydney Morning Herald • Jun 18, 2012
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Gay marriage 'inevitable', Gillard tells guests
PRIME Minister Julia Gillard has told three same-sex couples she believes laws allowing them to marry in Australia are inevitable.
Ms Gillard and partner Tim Mathieson hosted the couples at The Lodge last night. She told them the growing number of countries legislating in favour of the issue is placing increasing pressure on politicians to support reform....
Sydney Morning Herald • Feb 21, 2012
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Australia: Gay debate delayed to lift support
THE gay marriage debate in Parliament will be pushed back to later in the year to give advocates for change more time to garner enough support to have legislation for same sex marriage passed.
Instead of the debate being held immediately - which would have seen the bill defeated - the gay marriage campaign has changed focus to increase pressure on Tony Abbott to change his mind and allow oppositi...
Sydney Morning Herald • Feb 6, 2012
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Parents of gays make TV pitch to Abbott on same-sex marriage vote
PARENTS and grandparents of gay and lesbian children will make a direct appeal to Tony Abbott to allow them to marry in a television commercial which will air nationally from today.
The advertisement, organised by the Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, is designed to increase the pressure on Mr Abbott to grant Coalition MPs a conscience vote on same-sex marriage....
Sydney Morning Herald • Jan 30, 2012
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Call for patience in same sex marriage push
The Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott, has ruled out giving Coalition MPs a conscience vote, saying to do so would break an election commitment. But the Liberal senator Simon Birmingham has signalled he will argue for a conscience vote when Mr Abbott seeks party room approval for his position.
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Sydney Morning Herald • Jan 2, 2012
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After all the horse-trading, Gillard team braces for judgment day
The constitution grants the Commonwealth a power to pass laws on ''marriage'', but it is up to the High Court to determine what this word means. It has not yet decided whether ''marriage'' in the constitution means the union of a man and woman, as it did when the constitution was drafted in the 1890s, or something broader that could now encompass gay marriage.
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Sydney Morning Herald • Dec 19, 2011
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Australia: Conscience vote on gay marriage wins favour
A NEW poll shows an overwhelming majority believes all MPs should be given a conscience vote on same-sex marriage, just as Tony Abbott all but ruled the option out for the Coalition.
He also warned his MPs yesterday against crossing the floor to support gay marriage in defiance of party policy.
The latest Herald/Nielsen poll shows while support for same-sex marriage has slipped over the past mon...
Sydney Morning Herald • Dec 13, 2011
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Same sex civil unions passed in Qld
Same sex couples in Queensland now have the right to enter into legally recognised civil unions.
The Civil Partnerships Bill was passed in state parliament at 11.10pm (AEST) on Wednesday, with 47 MPs voting yes and 40 no.
The bill, introduced by deputy premier Andrew Fraser, allows same sex couples to register their union with the Queensland Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages....
Sydney Morning Herald • Nov 30, 2011
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Australia: PM grants conscience vote, dooming gay marriage
JULIA Gillard will back a conscience vote for Labor MPs on gay marriage, as the Age/Nielsen poll shows a growing majority of Australians favour legalising marriage equality.
But in a stand that will deeply disappoint those arguing for change, the Prime Minister also wants opposition to gay marriage to stay in the ALP platform, which will be debated at next month's party conference.
Sixty-two per...
Sydney Morning Herald • Nov 14, 2011
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Victorian Labor sends a message on gay marriage
The votes brings Victoria in to line with most of the country's states and territories in pressuring the federal government to change its platform. New South Wales is the only state not to have voted in support of gay marriage.
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Sydney Morning Herald • Oct 9, 2011
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World champ axeman backs gay marriage
World champion axeman David Foster may not be a likely poster boy for gay rights.
However, these days the prominent North-West Tasmanian is just as happy to be championing same-sex marriage as he is woodchopping.
The reason? His daughter Sally, her partner Lily and their daughter Wren, who soon turns one....
Sydney Morning Herald • Sep 9, 2011
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Australia: Hundreds rally for same-sex marriage
Hundreds of same-sex marriage advocates, some dressed as Jesus Christ and the Pope, have gathered in Brisbane as part of a national day of protest.
Gay and lesbian rights' protests were held across the country on Saturday ahead of the ALP National Conference in December.
Queensland Greens Senator Larissa Waters was among the speakers at the rally in Brisbane's Queens Park.
She encouraged them t...
Sydney Morning Herald • Aug 15, 2011
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NSW Labor struggles on gay marriage
LABOR Party factions in NSW were in crisis talks last night over whether to support same-sex marriage.
It is understood the party's powerful Right faction wants only to refer the matter to Labor's national conference in December.
But all other party state conferences have voted at their gatherings to support same-sex marriage - as well as to refer the issue to the national conference....
Sydney Morning Herald • Jul 11, 2011
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Here's an idea: what if the Government introduced voluntary gay marriage?
What is so Christian about an institution which lets in straight atheists and even Satanists, but excludes gay Christians?...
Sydney Morning Herald • Jun 20, 2009
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