Articles about Tasmania

5 May 2013
Australia: Three available seats in Tasmanian Upper House likely to be populated with equal marriage opponents 5 Equal marriage efforts in Tasmania looked to have taken a blow this week, as three available seats on the Legislative Council were set to be taken by equal marriage opponents.
9 April 2013
Australia: Tasmanian parliament advances bill to allow equal adoption + The Lower House of the Tasmanian parliament today resoundingly supported the advancement of legislation which would remove the ban on same-sex adoption.
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.
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.
10 August 2012
Mass rallies in support of marriage equality to take place across Australia this weekend 5 Mass rallies are taking place in eight Australian cities this weekend to mark the eight-year anniversary of the country's ban on marriage equality.
10 August 2012
Australian minister says Christians against marriage equality are not being discriminatory 72 The leader of Australia's Presbyterian Church has said that followers of Christianity are not being discriminatory in their belief that the definition of marriage should apply to opposite sex couples only.
6 August 2012
Australia: Tasmania to legislate for equal marriage rights if federal bill fails 11 The Parliament of Tasmania may pass equal marriage laws for the island's gay couples after the Australian state's premier announced support for the move.
18 May 2012
Tasmania: 250 attend vigil at ‘Excellent Marriage’ anti-gay marriage conference 10 250 people attended a vigil outside an anti-marriage equality conference in Tasmania last night as it was revealed the winning video message in a conference competition to define 'excellent marriage' was from a gay man.
31 August 2010
Tasmanian LGBT activists welcome recognition of Interstate and overseas same-sex unions 6 Legislation has been passed by the State Lower House in Tasmania which will allow same-sex couples in interstate or overseas unions to be automatically recognised under Tasmanian law without the need to re-register their status.

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