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Former Liberal state member Joe Francis is reportedly eyeing up a return to politics and is sounding out colleagues to see if he has their support to replace Western Australian senator Mathias Cormann. Cormann announced he would resign as Finance Minister and retire from politics at the end of the year bringing the curtain down […]
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13 Jul 2020 /
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Finance Minister Mathias Cormann has declared that he’d happily welcome back South Australian senator Cory Bernardi into the Liberal party ranks, despite Bernardi’s decision to abandon the party just six months after the 2016 election. “I’m always like to see members in the senate join the Liberal Nation team.” Cormann told Sky News this morning. […]
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19 Jun 2019 |
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The Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) are calling on the Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to release the recommendations put forward by Phillip Ruddock’s panel looking into religious freedom in Australia. PFLAG suggests that the delay in releasing the report is an extension of the long running debate over marriage equality which saw […]
Tags: Malcolm Turnbull, Mathias Cormann, PFLAG, religious freedom, Ruddock review, Shelly Argent
27 May 2018 |
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Acting Special Minister of State Mathias Cormann has announced that the financial cost of the postal survey was much less than the anticipated $122 million. Senator Cormann announced on his Twitter account that the process had been delivered by the Australian Bureau of Statistics for $80.5 million. “Happy to report that the ABS delivered the […]
Tags: Derryn Hinch, Jim Chalmers, Madeline King, Marriage, Mathias Cormann, postal survey, Twitter
9 Dec 2017 |
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Sky News is reporting that fifty per cent of the people who were sent marriage survey forms have already filled them out and returned them. Acting Special Minister of State, Mathias Cormann has told Sky News that he understands a large number of eligible participants in the marriage postal survey have already returned their forms. […]
Tags: Marriage, marriage equality, Mathias Cormann, postal survet, Same Sex Marriage, SKY News
1 Oct 2017 |
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Acting Special Minister of State Mathias Cormann has welcomed the High Court’s decision that will allow the government’s national survey on marriage equality to proceed. “We always said that this was an issue that should be put to the Australian people, and now as a result of the decision in the High Court, it’s full […]
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7 Sep 2017 |
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Nationals MP, and Small Business Minister, Michael McCormack has issued a fresh apology for anti-gay comments her made about gay people in 1993. McCormack write an editorial in a community newspaper where he described gay people as having “sordid” lives and were responsible for a disease that could wipe out humanity. “A week never goes […]
Tags: Homophobia, Marriage, marriage equality, Mathias Cormann, michael mccormack, postal survey
11 Aug 2017 |
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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has outlined his government’s revived plan for a plebiscite on marriage equality, and if necessary a secondary option of a postal plebiscite. The government’s bill for a plebiscite that was defeated in the senate last year will be reintroduced into the senate this week. The government now plans to hold the […]
Tags: ABS, Australian Bureau of Statistics, gay, Intersex, Lesbian, LGBT, LGBTI, LGBTIQ, Malcolm Turnbull, Mathias Cormann, plebiscite, postal plebiscite, queer, transgender
8 Aug 2017 |
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Finance Minister Mathias Cormann has dismissed reports suggesting there is a plan to replace Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull if a backbench plan to force a vote on marriage equality is successful. News Corp have reported that there is a plan to replace Malcolm Turnbull and deputy Julie Bishop with Immigration Minister Peter Dutton and Health […]
Tags: Dean Smith, jason wood, Malcolm Turnbull, Marriage, marriage equality, Mathias Cormann, Same Sex Marriage, Tim Wilson, Trevor Evans, Warren Enstch
1 Aug 2017 |
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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has restated the government’s commitment to a plebiscite on marriage equality but wouldn’t be drawn on reports a postal plebiscite was under consideration. Speaking to reporters on Wednesday the Prime Minister said the coalition’s policy was clear. “We went to the election with a policy for a plebiscite which would give […]
Tags: 18c, Bill SHorten, Derryn Hinch, Labor, Liberal, Malcolm Turnbull, Marriage, marriage equality, Mathias Cormann, Peter Dutton, plebiscite, postal plebiscite, racial discrimination, Same Sex Marriage, The Greens, traditional marriage
22 Mar 2017 |
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