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Cabinet documents reveal Keating government’s gays in the military debate

Cabinet documents reveal Keating government’s gays in the military debate

Cabinet documents from twenty five years ago have revealed the Keating government’s concerns about allowing gay people to serve in the military. The cabinet papers from 1992 and 1993 have been made public today and given Australians an insight into the concerns of the government. One issue that the cabinet debated was allowing gay people […]

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Cabinet debate over gays in the military revealed

Cabinet debate over gays in the military revealed

Cabinet papers released today show that 25 years ago the Australian government was told that allowing gay and lesbian people to openly serve in the military would lead to enlisted defense force personnel being preyed upon by gay men. Robert Ray who was Defence Minister at in the Keating government in the early 90’s, argued […]

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Five things the Marriage Alliance had to say this week

Mysterious lobby group The Marriage Alliance has retreated from talking to the media, ignoring requests for interviews and instead taken to meme generating Twitter output. It’s a bit of a mystery who is behind the Marriage Alliance’s vocal Twitter account. Many people have suggested it could potentially be a work experience student. Here’s five cray-cray […]

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