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Tasmania lawmakers defer same-sex marriage debate to federal parliament
HOBART, Tasmania — A motion to revive the debate over same-sex marriage in Tasmania’s parliament was defeated in the Upper House Legislative Council Tuesday, as local MP’s voted to leave the question up to the Federal Parliament in Canberra.
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Australian Capital Territory votes to legalize same-sex marriage
CANBERRA, Australia — A provincial parliament in Australia has become the country’s first to pass a law that allows same-sex marriages. But the federal government has threatened a court challenge.
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Airline investigating after passenger finds luggage emblazoned with ‘I am Gay’
An Australian airline has apologized and said it is investigating how the words “I am gay” were spelled out in airline baggage stickers on a passenger’s luggage on Sunday between his departure in Perth and his arrival in Brisbane.
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Catholic priest excommunicated over support for women priests, gay marriage
Just one day before Pope Francis criticized the Catholic Church over its obsession with gays, an Australian priest learned he had been both defrocked and excommunicated over his support for women priests and same-sex marriage.
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Australian Prime Minister signals challenge to capital’s gay marriage bill
Newly elected Australian prime minster Tony Abbott said this week that his government is considering possibly blocking the Australian Capital Territory’s (ACT) proposed same-sex marriage legislation.
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Christian lobby vows to block same-sex marriage efforts in Australian capital
CANBERRA, Australia — The Australian Christian Lobby, a powerful anti-gay political faction, announced this week that it will exert pressure on Prime Minister-elect Tony Abbott, to override the Australian Capital Territory’s proposed marriage equality law by passing a bill in the federal parliament to block the effort.
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Wife of likely Australia PM doesn’t support husband’s opposition to gay marriage
FORESTVILLE, New South Wales — Margie Abbott, wife of the man many expect to be elected the next Prime Minister of Australia, indicated in a television interview Thursday that she does not necessarily support her husband’s staunch opposition to same-sex marriage.
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Australian Prime Minister defends same-sex marriage
BRISBANE, Queensland, Australia — Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, appearing Monday on an Australian national political program “Questions & Answers,” defended his support for marriage equality in a spirited exchange in which he went toe-to-toe with a local pastor on the Biblical definition of marriage.
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Aussie coalition opposed to gay marriage promotes $200 marriage vouchers
CANBERRA, Australia — Australia’s Opposition leader Tony Abbott and his Liberal National Coalition, who are opposed to legalizing same-sex marriage down under, are offering a $200 voucher to couples who register to be married.
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Airline hosts country’s first same-sex marriage in New Zealand skies
Lynley Bendall and Ally Wanikau, who have been together almost 14 years, celebrated the legalization of same-sex marriage in New Zealand on Monday by getting hitched at 39,000 feet.