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29 April 2013
Comment: To Australia’s Prime Minister: Follow the lead of your homeland (Wales) & support marriage equality 23 Murray Lipp, an Australian citizen living in New York and administrator of the Facebook page ‘Gay Marriage USA’, discusses Australia’s slow progress towards marriage equality in a comment piece for PinkNews.
29 April 2013
Australia: Liberal leader Tony Abbott says no to equal marriage referendum at election 14 Australia's opposition leader Tony Abbott, has said he does not agree with MP Tony Windsor, who proposed that the issue of equal marriage be put to a vote by Australians on election day in September.
28 April 2013
Australia: MP calls for election day referendum on equal marriage 30 An independent Australian MP has proposed that the issue of equal marriage be put to voters in a referendum, as soon as this September, in a move supported by the Green Party.
19 April 2013
Australia: Liberal leader Tony Abbott shifts position on party’s same-sex marriage stance 25 Australia’s opposition leader is suggesting his party will decide its position on equal marriage after September's election.
18 April 2013
Openly gay Australian MP: I doubt an equal marriage bill would currently pass in New South Wales 1 An openly gay MP in New South Wales (NSW), Australia, has said that she is not convinced that an equal marriage bill would currently be able to pass in the state's parliament.
17 April 2013
Australian PM refuses to support equal marriage despite New Zealand victory 56 Australia’s Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, says she won’t be dropping her opposition to marriage equality, even though neighbouring New Zealand passed the measure on Wednesday.
1 April 2013
Australia: Liberal leader Tony Abbott rules out supporting equal marriage 6 Australia’s opposition leader says he will continue to side against equal marriage - an issue which sees him at odds with parts of his family.
22 February 2013
Australia: Religious groups could lose exemption from anti-discrimination law 7 Religious organisations in Australia could lose exemptions to anti-discrimination laws, under recommendations from an inquiry which suggested that the ruling Labor Party's proposed legal changes needed to remove protections for groups to discriminate, where it would otherwise be unlawful.
8 February 2013
Australia: Anti-gay politician attempts to defend pro-marriage equality candidate from expulsion 11 Bob Katter of Katter's Australian Party has stepped in to save senate candidate Steven Bailey after he made pro-equal marriage comments.
6 February 2013
Campaigners urge Australia to ‘catch up’ on same-sex marriage and follow Britain’s lead 5 An equality organisation in Australia has urged the country’s federal government to follow the lead of the UK Government in legalising same-sex marriages.
15 January 2013
Australia to keep anti-gay discrimination to protect ‘freedom’ of religious groups 47 Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has reportedly given her word to religious groups that they will have the “freedom” under a new rights bill, to discriminate against gay people, and other people deemed sinners.
20 November 2012
Australian campaigners hope new law can help in equal marriage fight 5 Marriage equality advocates in Australia have welcomed a new draft national anti-discrimination law.
11 October 2012
Sydney to host gay rugby cup in 2014 + Sydney has won its bid to host the 2014 Bingham Cup, the world's top gay rugby tournament.
9 October 2012
Australia: Speaker Peter Slipper quits amid sex scandal + Australia’s parliamentary Speaker Peter Slipper has resigned after text messages showed he had used sexist and vulgar language in an exchange with a gay former staffer, who is suing him for sexual harassment.
27 September 2012
Australia: Defeat for equal marriage bill in Tasmania 22 Tasmania's same-sex marriage bill has failed to pass the Legislative Council after a key member indicated he would vote against it.
20 September 2012
Australian Senate follows second chamber in defeating equal marriage 26 A vote on a bill that would have introduced equal marriage rights for same-sex couples has been defeated in the Australian Senate.
19 September 2012
Australia votes against legalising equal marriage 51 Lawmakers in the Australian Parliament have overwhelmingly rejected a bill that would have introduced equal marriage rights for same-sex couples.
18 September 2012
Australian Senate unlikely to support equal marriage, says Finance minister 16 Senator Penny Wong, Australia’s gay Finance minister is downplaying expectations that the country’s upper parliamentary chamber will support equal marriage rights for same-sex couples in an historic vote, due to take place in the next 24 hours.
11 September 2012
Australian PM supports bid to host 2014 gay rugby world cup 13 Australia’s Prime Minister Julia Gillard has officially given her backing to a bid for the country to host the next Bingham Cup.
10 September 2012
Australia: Archbishop backs anti-gay ‘smoking’ comments of Christian leader 61 The Anglican Archbishop of Sydney Peter Jensen is supporting comments made by the head of the Australian Christian Jim Wallace, who last week suggested that a gay “lifestyle” is more hazardous to health than smoking.

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