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Write to your MP!

The House of Reps has concluded its survey on marriage equality, and 64% of respondents said they want this reform.

Now it's time to write to your MP about why marriage equality matters to you.

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04 May 12 AME resources, Resources | Comments Off

Marriage equality: the lived reality

The following address was prepared for the Senate Legal and Constitutional Legal Affairs Committee hearing into marriage equality by AME Board Memeber, Malcolm McPherson, on 3.5.12. Senators, thank you for inviting us to meet with you this morning. This issue is not an academic issue for me. It is a part of my lived reality. ...

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20 Apr 12 Australian commentary, Weblog | Comments Off

SAME+ Blog: Marriage Equality: 3 – Opposition: Nil

By Jacqui Tomlins, Melbourne-based marriage equality campaigner. Follow her blog here. I once had a creative writing teacher who said that writing a book was a long, slow process and that you needed to celebrate the small victories and milestones along the way; finishing your plot outline, drafting the first chapter, getting a letter from a ...

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26 Mar 12 Australian commentary, Take Action, Weblog | Comments Off

SAME+ Blog: Have you asked to change the law, Mama?

By Jacqui Tomlins, Melbourne-based marriage equality campaigner. Follow her blog here. Senate inquiry It’s tricky trying to explain to a six year old the idea that a law – in this case a law about whether or not you can marry the person you love – can be different in different countries, and that it all ...

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17 Mar 12 Australian commentary, Take Action, Weblog | Comments Off

SAME+ blog: Friends and enemies

By Jacqui Tomlins, Melbourne-based marriage equality campaigner. Follow her blog here. It’s been an interesting couple of weeks in Marriage Equality land with some nice, and some nasty, stuff in the media – and not all of it coming from the places you’d expect. In my last post I included a link to an article I’d ...

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28 Feb 12 Australian commentary | Comments Off

SAME+ blog: The Archbishop, the kids and me …

By Jacqui Tomlins, Melbourne-based marriage equality campaigner. Follow her blog here. Just a quick post today. In my last email I talked about the Baptist minister, Matt Glover, who lost his job for publically supporting Marriage Equality. Well, about the time I was writing that the Archbishop of Perth was declaring – on national TV and ...

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20 Feb 12 Australian commentary | Comments Off

SAME Plus blog: Matt, Magda and Making a difference…

By Jacqui Tomlins, Melbourne-based marriage equality campaigner. Follow her blog here. Last week I went to a benefit for the former Baptist minister from Lilydale, Matt Glover. Some of you might have read about him in The Age at the end of last year. In November, Matt gave Rodney Croome (AME’s campaign director) a short statement ...

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06 Feb 12 Australian commentary | Comments Off

SAME+ Blog: To the Honourable Speaker …

Here’s a thought… Imagine if one same sex couple took their cause up with their local MP and called on them to support Marriage Equality. Imagine if family, friends and colleagues got behind that couple and helped put pressure on that local MP. Imagine if the broader local community supported them too and, between them ...

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25 Nov 11 Australian resources, Resources | Comments Off

Human Rights Watch on marriage equality in Australia: the world is watching

From: Boris O. Dittrich, Advocacy director Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights Program, Human Rights Watch, New York Dear delegate to the 2011 Australian Labor Party Conference, Australian Labor Party should vote in favor of same-sex marriage On the eve of your party’s Conference where you will be debating whether the ALP should support same-sex marriage in ...

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05 Oct 11 AME weblog | Comments Off

Reflecting Australia

Posted by AME National Convenor, Alex Greenwich, 11pm, 5.10.11 The “I Do” marriage equality ad released on Friday is this week’s most shared, viewed and discussed not-for-profit Youtube from Australia. As well as being hugely popular in Australia (it has been featured by the 7.30 Report and by bloggers like Natalie Tran), the “I Do” ...

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01 Jul 11 AME resources | Comments Off

Marriage equality and health

AME Health Fact Sheet There is a direct relationship between allowing same-sex couples to marry and better health outcomes for gay and lesbian Australians and their families. AME has produced a fact sheet which outlines what this relationship is. It can be accessed by clicking here. The health fact sheet refers to various studies which ...

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Same-sex relationship laws in Australia
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In Australia the federal, state and territory governments share responsibility for making laws about marriage, relationships and families.

For more information about the legal status of same-sex relationships and parenting in a particular state or territory, click on that state or territory.

For information about the legal status of same-sex relationships in Australian national law, click here.