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Tasmania passes motion to support marriage equality

Tasmania passes motion to support marriage equality

Tasmania’s Upper House has passed a motion in support of marriage equality in Australia, following a successful in-principle motion in the Lower House last year. Though the decision will not have any direct consequences for LGBTIQ couples in Tasmania, Independent MLC Tony Mulder (pictured) says this is an important moment for his state. “It’s about doing […]

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Peter Abetz rules out any apology

Peter Abetz rules out any apology

Southern River MLA Peter Abetz has refused to apologise for his recent comments in the Western Australian parliament where he suggested that incoming federal senator Patrick Dodson would not be able to represent the traditional views of indigenous Australians. Senator Dodson was nominated by the Labor party as their replacement senator to fill the vacancy […]

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Rob Johnson quits the Liberals, might run as an independent in 2017

Rob Johnson quits the Liberals, might run as an independent in 2017

Liberal MP Rob Johnson has announced he’s quitting the party and going to serve out his term on the cross benches. The Hillarys MP said he had lost faith in the government and his own leader Premier Colin Barnett. In a statement about his resignation Johnson said he had serious concerns about the Western Australian […]

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Labor repeats calls for a parliamentary vote on marriage

Labor repeats calls for a parliamentary vote on marriage

Opposition leader Bill Shorten has repeated Labor’s call for the issue of marriage equality to be decided by parliamentary vote instead of the Coalition’s plebiscite plan. “Let’s have a conscience vote of our members of Parliament. Why do we need to waste $160 million on a plan devised by the opponents of marriage equality,” Mr […]

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Federal Senate calls on WA government to drop anti-protest laws

Federal Senate calls on WA government to drop anti-protest laws

The federal senate has backed a motion calling for the WA government to abandon it’s proposed anti-protest laws. The Criminal Code Amendment (Prevention of Lawful Activity Bill) is designed to stop protesters locking themselves to equipment and property and is targeted at environmental activists, but concern has been raised over the vague wording of the bill […]

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Criticism of anti-gay Mandurah school ramps up

Calls for education minister to act A new petition has been launched calling for schools that discriminate against children with same sex parents to be ineligible for government funding. Yesterday it was revealed that a Mandurah school had asked a seven year old girl to not speak about her gay father. The girls father has […]

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AME welcome WA motion to scrap plebiscite

AME welcome WA motion to scrap plebiscite

Australian Marriage Equality’s national director Rodney Croome has congratulated the Western Australian Parliament and Premier Colin Barnett for passing yesterday’s motion to call on the Federal Government to dismiss a plebiscite and allow a free vote on marriage equality. Marriage equality advocates, such as AME and Mr Croome, have been calling for a free vote […]

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WA MPs call on Canberra to dump plebiscite policy

WA MPs call on Canberra to dump plebiscite policy

The Western Australian Legislative Assembly has passed a motion calling for their federal counterparts to dump the plan for a marriage plebiscite and allow a free vote on the issue of marriage equality. The resolution was put forward by Labor’s Lisa Baker (pictured) and sparked a wide ranging debate. Members of the house debated marriage […]

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Premier Barnett claims to have always supported removing discrimination

Premier Barnett claims to have always supported removing discrimination

Western Australia’s Premier Colin Barnett has declared that he does not support marriage equality but does favour creating civil unions for same sex couples. In an interview with PerthNow the Premier states that he has always supported removing any form of discrimination. Speaking to PerthNow’s Kara Vickery, Mr Barnett said he supported civil unions, but did not […]

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Premier Barnett Joins Twitter

Premier Barnett Joins Twitter

Western Australian Premier Colin Barnett has joined the Twittersphere. For his first tweet the Premier posted a photograph of himself with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the G20 summit in Brisbane. So far the Premier has just posted one tweet, but he did promise he’d post more as he made more friends at the […]

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