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Oh what a night! Connections’ 40th birthday

Lord Mayor Lisa Scaffidi opened Connections Nightclub’s 40th birthday celebrations on Saturday night. In her speech the Lord Mayor recalled spending time at the club in her youth, and paid tribute to the late Holly Wood who often accompanied her to the venue. Holly Wood, a veteran entertainment writer for The Sunday Times, passed away […]

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Politicians Join Forces to Celebrate Pride

Politicians Join Forces to Celebrate Pride

On Thursday November 20th, National MLC Martin Aldridge, Minister for Mental Health Helen Morton, Greens MLC Lynn MacLaren and Labor MLC Stephen Dawson held the event ‘Celebrating Pride at Parliament’. The evening was spent celebrating cross-party support for the LGBT community and discussing the future of queer rights including same sex marriage. Greens MLC Lynn […]

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Marriage Equality Bill Introduced in WA

Marriage Equality Bill Introduced in WA

Greens MLC Lynn MacLaren has introduced a Marriage Equality Bill into the Western Australian Parliament today. The Same-Sex Marriage Bill 2013will allow the authorisation of celebrants and the registration of same-sex marriages via an amendment to the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1998. MacLaren described the introduction of the legislation as, “a major milestone […]

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Australia Celebrates First Same Sex Marriages

Australia Celebrates First Same Sex Marriages

Australia saw it’s first legal same sex marriages occur over the weekend when the Australian Capital Territory’s laws came into effect at midnight on Friday. Sixteen couples were wed on the laws in front of Parliament House. Amongst the first to take their vows was Western Australian couple Dennis Liddelow and Stephen Dawson. Liddelow, a […]

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WA Politician Stephen Dawson To Wed in Canberra

WA Politician Stephen Dawson To Wed in Canberra

Stephen Dawson, Labor’s MLC for the Mining and Pastoral region is set to marry his long time partner Dennis Liddelow in Canberra this weekend. Dawson and Liddelow will be among the first same sex couples to marry in Australia under the territory’s ground breaking law. Liddelow and Dawson were previously had a civil union in Ireland. “But […]

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Bar Boss Sleeps Out For Homeless

Across the country tonight hundreds of company CEO’s will be feeling the cold as they sleep out to raise awareness and money for the homeless. Mathew Clarke, Managing Director of Bar 138 is one of the CEO’s bracing the cold and asking people to donate to what he sees as a very important cause. “I […]

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