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Australians may have voiced their support for marriage equality during last year’s postal survey on the issue, and politicians may have changed the laws on a federal level, but for many transgender Australians who were already married barriers still remain. Australian Marriage Equality has just launched a new campaign encouraging state governments to change laws […]
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1 Aug 2018 /
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Advocates for marriage equality have welcomed the passage of Senator Dean Smith’s marriage bill through the senate. Gathering outside parliament just after the vote was held, politicians from all sides of the chamber said they were overjoyed that after more than a decade of campaigning, and a long drawn out postal survey process, the parliament […]
Tags: Alex Greenwich, AME, Anna Brown, Australian Marriage Equality, just.equal, Louise Pratt, Marriage, Penny Wong, Rodney Croome
29 Nov 2017 |
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The Catholic Archbishop of Sydney has argued that the majority of Australians did not voice support for marriage equality because some people did not return their survey forms. Archbishop Anthony Fisher says that because 20 per cent of people abstained from taking part in the survey, support for allowing same sex couples to marry is […]
Tags: Anna Brown, Archbishop Anthony Fisher, Australian Marriage Equality, Catholic, Marriage, postal survey, religious protections
26 Nov 2017 |
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Northbridge Plaza was packed at 7am this morning as thousands crowded in to hear the outcome of the marriage survey announcement in Perth. Excitement and tears of joy met the final response of YES, as Australia demanded equality. OIP Staff Support OUTinPerth Thanks for reading OUTinPerth. We can only create LGBTIQA+ focused […]
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15 Nov 2017 |
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The Equality Campaign has rejected the marriage equality bill put forward by Senator James Paterson as nothing more than a license to discriminate. “This is not a marriage equality bill. It’s about enshrining discrimination and taking Australia back decades,” said Anna Brown of the Equality Campaign. “Australians are voting to make our country a fairer […]
Tags: Alex Greenwich, AME, Anna Brown, Australian Marriage Equality, Equality Campaign, James Paterson, just.equal, Marriage, marriage equality, Same Sex Marriage, traditional marriage
13 Nov 2017 |
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Advocates on both side of the debate have thanked their supporters as the Australian Bureau of Statistics closes the national survey on marriage. The Australian Bureau of Statistics Office in Perth was the final place that survey forms could be submitted, it stopped taking forms at 4:30pm today. Earlier the government organisation revealed that 12.6 […]
Tags: Alex Greenwich, Anna Brown, AusPol, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian Marriage Equality, Debate, Equality Campaign, gay, Intersex, Lesbian, LGBT, LGBTI, LGBTIQ, Lyle Shelton, Marriage, marriage equality, postal survey, queer, trans*, transgender
7 Nov 2017 |
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The Australian Bureau of Statistics has revealed the latest count on the number of marriage survey forms returned. A whopping 12.6 million Australians have returned their forms, representing 78.5 per cent of the eligible voters. The response rate is higher than the United Kingdom’s Brexit poll, the Irish referendum on marriage and the last US […]
Tags: ABS, Alex Greenwich, AME, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian Marriage Equality, Coalition for Marriage, Freedom Team, Marriage, marriage survey, postal survey
7 Nov 2017 |
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Australian Conservatives leader Cory Bernardi has argued that any legislation to allow same sex marriage will have to be carefully considered by the parliament, and may take some time before it could actually become law. Last week Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull restated his belief that if the marriage postal survey returned a ‘yes’ vote, the […]
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26 Oct 2017 |
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The Equality Campaign has welcomed the announcement by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) today that almost three quarters (74.5%) of Australians have returned their marriage surveys. The ABS has released the latest return estimates from the 16 million survey forms sent out last month. The ABS said the estimate is based on a count […]
Tags: ABS, AME, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian Marriage Equality, Emily Seebohm, Equality Campaign, Jonathan Palmer, Marriage, Mitch Larkin, Olympian, postal survey, Teirnan Brady
24 Oct 2017 |
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Sam Smith has revealed the track listing for his new album The Thrill of It All. The singer’s follow up to his hugely successful debut album will be released via EMI Music worldwide on 3rd November. Too Good At Goodbyes, the first single off the new album, has achieved global success, and hit the number one […]
Tags: Australian Marriage Equality, equality, Janine Middleton, Marriage, postal survey, Sam Smith, The Thrill of It All
19 Oct 2017 |
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