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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
ACT Senator petitioned on marriage equality
Residents of the Australian Capital Territory have started a petition calling on Senator Gary Humphries to support marriage equality. The Senator opposes marriage equality despite polling showing that support for the reform in the territory is as high as 73 percent. In a letter to residents, Senator Humphries argued that marriage cannot be changed because ...
Mt Gambier: Same-sex couple join fight to say ‘I do’
They ‘do’ – but they can’t. Same-sex Mount Gambier couple Eerin Wilson and Sarah Ward want the right to make their love official by getting married, something prohibited under Australian law. Currently living together, their relationship is recognised as de facto for purposes such as Centrelink, but there is nothing that will recognise their union ...
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