Australia’s leading gay and lesbian newspaper
Est.
1979
Gaymarriagethisyear?>> NatioNal
BENN DoRRiNGtoNaND DREW SHElDRiCK
Public support for marriage equality
has reached a record high as states and
territories promise to go it alone on the...
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Australia’s leading gay and lesbian newspaper
Est.
1979
Gaymarriagethisyear?>> NatioNal
BENN DoRRiNGtoNaND DREW SHElDRiCK
Public support for marriage equality
has reached a record high as states and
territories promise to go it alone on the
issueifFederalParliamentfailstochange
theMarriageActthisyear.
AGalaxypollreleasedthisweekshows
support at 64 percent just a few days
after Tasmanian Premier Lara Giddings
pledged to introduce gay marriage laws
bytheendof2012.
Giddings made her announcement at
the Labor State Conference in Hobart on
Saturday,August4.
It’sunderstoodtheproposedlegislation
would pass through Tasmania’s Lower
House but its chances in the Upper
Houseremainuncertain.
Constitutional law expert
Professor George Williams
has backed the premier’s
plan and has previously
said any challenge
by the Federal
Government would not stand up in the
HighCourt.
Giddings said she expected the rest of
the country would be watching this issue
closely.
“ItismyhopethattheCommonwealth
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