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Potential Wedding Album site reborn after hacking
In good news for supporters of same-sex marriage, images and messages that appeared on the Potential Wedding Album (TPWA) website will soon be hosted on a page on Australian Marriage Equality’s (AME) website after a cyber-attack on the site’s upstream server in early June resulted in its deletion along with thousands of other sites. A ...
Backgrounder: State Labor Conferences and marriage equality
Four Australian State Labor Party branches have endorsed marriage equality. The first was Tasmania in July 2009. For media reports, click here and here The second was Victoria in November 2009. For a media report, click here. A copy of the motion is below. The third was South Australia in November 2010. For a media ...
Full marriage equality survey results for Wentworth
On April 13th, 2011, the Federal Member for Wentworth, Malcolm Turnbull, released the results of his electorate survey on marriage equality. Here is a summary followed by a link to the full results. Same Sex Marriage Survey Results for Wentworth The results of the Wentworth survey on same sex marriage show a clear majority of ...
Writing Themselves In – 3
In November 2010 the Australian centre for Sex. Health and Socuety released its third Writing Themselves In Report, looking at the experiences of same-sex attracted and gender questioning young Australians. The report found that marriage equality is important to many young SSAGQ young people, particularly those from more conservative and religious backgrounds. An extract from ...
The Sacred and the Secular
On 20 September 2010, the Human Rights Legal Resource Centre hosted a seminar with Justice Albie Sachs, former Judge of the South African Constitutional Court, entitled ‘The Sacred and the Secular: The Same-Sex Marriages Case’. For more, click here Share
Why v Why: gay marriage
Why v Why: gay marriage is part of a series of books about current social issues and the first book on marriage equality published in Australia. The case for reform is written by AME campaign co-ordinator, Rodney Croome, and the case against by Baptist theologian, Bill Muehlenberg. Why v Why: gay marriage is available in ...
Not So Private Lives
Not So Private Lives is a national study of the relationships of same-sex attracted Australians conducted at the University of Queensland and released in September 2009. NSPLs asked respondents their views on different forms of legal relationship recognition. The results are the best indication available of the attitudes of gay and lesbian Australians to marriage ...
Prof Lee Badgett: submission to the 2009 Australian Senate inquiry into marriage equality
In 2009, a global expert on the impact of marriage equality, Prof Lee Badgett, made a submission to an Australian Senate inquiry in which she outlined her research results. These results included the following: We found evidence that access to a social institution that is widely recognized— marriage—enhances same-sex couples’ relationships and their interactions with ...
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