ANDIE NOONAN
Australian polls continue to favour
allowingsame-sexmarriage,including
a Nielsen poll released on Monday
showing 57 percent of respondents
support the concept.
Crowds in Melbourne and Brisbane
gathered over the weekend to call
for the current...
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ANDIE NOONAN
Australian polls continue to favour
allowingsame-sexmarriage,including
a Nielsen poll released on Monday
showing 57 percent of respondents
support the concept.
Crowds in Melbourne and Brisbane
gathered over the weekend to call
for the current ban to be lifted, with
a strong pre-election showing of
politicians from all stripes.
Although crowd numbers in
Melbourne were down on the August
rally, a colourful audience gathered
at the State Library to hear Education
Minister Bronwyn Pike — who has a
gay son — reiterate her support for
change.
“It is completely unjustifiable and
completely unforgivable that I can
marry but my gay friends and family
members can’t,” Pike told the crowd.
“That is a travesty.
I want to do every
thing I possibly can to fight it.
”
Speaking about her sister’s right
to marry her partner, Australian Sex
Party convenor Fiona Patten said the
current marriage law was outdated
and unfair.
“There should be no law that
discriminates against someone on th
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