Australia’s leading gay and lesbian newspaper Est.
1979 www.
starobserver.
com.
au Issue 1041 Wednesday 29 September 2010
Marriage
bill back in
Parliament
The Greens will re-introduce their
Marriage Equality Bill in the Senate
today, delivering on a...
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Australia’s leading gay and lesbian newspaper Est.
1979 www.
starobserver.
com.
au Issue 1041 Wednesday 29 September 2010
Marriage
bill back in
Parliament
The Greens will re-introduce their
Marriage Equality Bill in the Senate
today, delivering on a promise made
during the federal election.
Greens spokeswoman on Sexuality
and Gender Identity, Senator Sarah
Hanson-Young, told Sydney Star
Observer, “On Wednesday I will reintroduce my Marriage Equality Bill,
as promised, at the start of the new
Parliament.
”
Hanson-Young moved a notice of
motion for the bill yesterday, so the bill
could be introduced at the first available
oportunity.
Hanson-Young said that with reform
ofparliamentaryproceeduresandpublic
opinion strongly supporting same-sex
marriage, the time for a parliamentary
debate on the bill was now.
“The election campaign made clear
that one area where the community
wanted to see change was the removal
of discrimination against same-sex
couples preventing them from marrying
the
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