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TGLRG: Tassie could reap $100m from gay weddings
Media Release: Tasmanian Gay & Lesbian Rights Group Thursday February 23rd, 2012 An American academic who has advised the New York and Californian governments on the economic benefits of allowing same-sex marriage today launched a report predicting Tasmania will reap almost $100 million if it is the first state to move on the issue. Professor ...
Renowned US scholar in Aus to highlight positive impacts of marriage equality
An American academic who has extensively researched the impact of same-sex marriage in Europe and North America is in Australia to present her findings to state and federal politicians. Professor Lee Badgett, who is an economics professor at the University of Massachusetts and Director of the Williams Institute at UCLA, has found that marriage fosters ...
Limestone Coast: Businesses back same-sex marriage petition
BUSINESS operators across the South East have started to throw their support behind a Mount Gambier couple’s campaign to lobby the Federal Government to allow same-sex marriage. Eerin Wilson and Sarah Ward recently started the Marriage Equality for the Limestone Coast group and joined a national online campaign by marriage equality advocates to influence an ...
QLD: Same-sex couples can sign up for civil unions from Thursday
GAY couples are preparing to line up outside the Brisbane registry office on Thursday to sign up for the state’s first civil unions. That’s when the Civil Partnership Act comes into effect, with the first ceremonies able to take place on March 5. It will give gay couples the same legal rights as married couples. ...
A butcher’s hook at dinner with the PM
It’s not every day a pair of butchers from Werribee get to bend the ear of a prime minister, but that’s exactly what happened when John Dini, 29, and his partner of nine years, Steve Russell, 51, joined two lesbian couples for dinner at the Lodge. As reported in CW last month, the couple were ...
Help Marriage Equality Happen: Make a Submission to the Senate Inquiry
Dear Marriage Equality Supporter, At last night’s dinner with the Prime Minister, we were all told that she believes marriage equality will happen one day. However, it is up to all of us to make it happen. Australian Marriage Equality helped secure cross-party support for a Senate Inquiry into Same-Sex Marriage. This Inquiry will provide ...
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 ...
Dinner with PM: Gay pairs chew on marriage
JULIA Gillard tonight swapped leadership talk for a grilling on gay marriage when she welcomed three homosexual couples to dinner. The Prime Minister entertained two lesbian couples and a male couple who won the chance in an auction that raised $31,000 for charity paid by social campaigner GetUp. The couples each told their personal stories ...
QLD: Christian lobby targets MPs over same-sex debate
THE Christian lobby has entered the Queensland election fight with an emotive attack on Labor MP Kate Jones. Ms Jones, who is defending her seat against Campbell Newman, has been confronted over the former minister’s support for legislation clearing the way for same-sex couples to have civil unions and a child through surrogacy. The Australian ...
Dinner with PM: Straight talk over gay issues on menu
Gay marriage proved a headache for Julia Gillard at her party’s conference in December. But in the current climate, she just might be relieved to talk on a subject that doesn’t involve her foreign minister. She’ll get the chance tonight when she hosts three same-sex couples at The Lodge, the upshot of an auction of ...
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