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8 August 2012Matthew Mitcham ‘most influential Australian Olympian on Twitter’ 11 Openly gay gold medal-winning diver Matthew Mitcham is the most influential athlete on the Australian team at this year's London Olympics, according to a PR firm in his home country. -
6 August 2012Australia: 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. -
25 July 2012Australia: Extremist preacher bailed on Mardi Gras terror charge 16 An extremist Muslim preacher has been bailed in Australia after answering charges for allegedly threatening a terrorist attack on Sydney's gay Mardi Gras parade and for possessing images of child abuse. -
16 July 2012Australian Olympic athlete in anti-straight room discrimination claim 38 An Australian gunman competing at the London Olympics has said it is 'stupid' he and his wife are not allowed to share a room while 'tons of gay couples' representing Australia can. -
12 July 2012Queensland priest relaunches campaign against ‘gay panic’ defence 9 A Queensland priest who started a campaign to have the 'gay panic' comprehensively removed from local law in Australia has relaunched his campaign. -
8 July 2012Australia: ACT bid to remove surgery requirement for trans recognition 3 Legal and human rights groups in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) are pushing to change a law which requires transgender people to have surgery in order to change their legal gender. -
6 July 2012Australia: Liberal MP Malcolm Turnbull hits out at anti-gay ‘hypocrisy’ 16 Australian Liberal MP Malcolm Turnbull has attacked anti-gay campaigners as "dripping with the worst sort of hypocrisy".
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29 June 2012Australia: 40 percent of gay couples identify as Christian 27 According to 2011 census figures, 40 percent of gay couples in Australia identify themselves as Christians, compared with two-thirds of straight couples. -
28 June 2012Queensland: Groups fear three-year prison sentences under gay surrogacy ban 12 Equality advocates are meeting to oppose the new Queensland government's plan to criminalise surrogacy arrangements for gay couples, single people and some straight couples. -
25 June 2012Australia: Senate committee backs marriage equality in ‘watershed’ report 5 A cross-party senate committee in Australia has published recommendations for a free vote on marriage equality legislation in the country's federal parliament and called on senators to support the move. -
24 June 2012Australian Salvation Army apologises for spokesman arguing gays should be executed 53 Following a senior official in the The Australian Salvation Army has apologised after a senior official told an Australian LGBT radio station that gay people should be put to death. -
23 June 2012Audio: Australian Salvation Army chief: ‘Gay people should be put to death’ 192 In a discussion for Australia's Joy 94.9 FM, a senior official in the Australian Salvation Army suggested that sexually active LGBT people should be put to death. -
22 June 2012Queensland ‘downgrades’ civil partnerships and will ban gay surrogacy 100 The Australian state of Queensland will remove gay couples' ability to have children through surrogacy and downgrade civil partnerships to the class of 'registered relationships', after a debate in Parliament last night.
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21 June 2012Australia: Census records nearly 34,000 gay couples 22 Data from Australia's 2011 census have been released today and show 33,714 gay couples, 1,338 of whom are married.
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20 June 2012Australia: MP wishes wife a happy anniversary in speech against marriage for gay couples 52 Australian MP John Murphy paused during a speech in which he opposed equal marriage rights for gay couples to wish his own wife a happy anniversary on Monday. -
18 June 2012Australia: Equal marriage headed for a defeat in the Parliament 31 Gay rights activists in Australia and pro-equality politicians are bracing themselves for a parliamentary defeat on equal marriage, even as a public consultation on the matter finds record support for the measure.
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11 June 2012Australian prime minister: Not all loving relationships need marriage certificates 87 Australian prime minister Julia Gillard, who is personally opposed to marriage rights for gay couples, has told the father of a gay man that not all loving relationships need to be recognised as marriages. -
8 June 2012Sydney team wins gay rugby world cup at Manchester final 8 Gay Australian rugby team the Sydney Convicts have taken home the 2012 Bingham Cup, becoming gay rugby champions of the world. -
7 June 2012Australian Christian Lobby director likens equal marriage campaign to Nazi propaganda 53 The Australian Christian Lobby has criticised the ethics of a morning television programme after it publicly supported an equal marriage campaign and said today the way it had been run would do 'great credit' to Nazi propagandists. -
3 June 2012Video: Australian celebrities launch a high-profile campaign for equal marriage 10 As the Out4Marriage campaign gathers momentum in the UK, celebrities in Australia have lent their voices to a high-profile equal marriage campaign, launched today.
