Atralian Labor Party rejects plebisce on gay marriage | CNN

Contents:

• ATRALIA VOT FOR GAY MARRIAGE, CLEARG PATH TO LEGALIZATN
• ATRALIA SENATE STOPS GAY MARRIAGE VOTE
• ATRALIA GAY MARRIAGE VOTE 'WILL ST A$0.5BN'
• ATRALIA SENATE STOPS GAY MARRIAGE VOTE
• ATRALIA GAY MARRIAGE VOTE 'WILL ST A$0.5BN'
• ATRALIANS VOTE 'Y' ON GAY MARRIAGE
• ATRALIAN OPPOSN BLOCKS GAY MARRIAGE VOTE
• ATRALIA GAY MARRIAGE VOTE 'WILL ST A$0.5BN'
• GAY MARRIAGE ATRALIA UNLIKELY FOR YEARS AFTER PUBLIC VOTE PLAN REJECTED
• CELEBRATE THE ATRALIAN GAY MARRIAGE VOTE AMAZG STYLE WH THE CREDIBLE RABOW HAIRDOS
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• ATRALIANS VOTE 'Y' ON GAY MARRIAGE
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

ATRALIA VOT FOR GAY MARRIAGE, CLEARG PATH TO LEGALIZATN

Whether that was accurate or not, that is how many the gay muny felt. Dpe the emotnal turmoil and pa, many LGBTIQ people went to that vote feelg, the entire mpaign for a y vote was about hearts and mds —  actively pulled at the heartstrgs of Atralians who had a gay child, uncle, niece or work mate. Returng to Pearson's central premise — that a Voice would rce racism Atralia — let's look at the only parison we have: the same sex marriage end homophobia?

Media ptn, 'Gay people are gog to have the bt weddgs'Polls did well - pared to the lik of Brex and the 2016 US printial electn - part bee the turnout was so high (approximately 80%, pared to 61% the Irish gay marriage referendum). “(Now) we need to save and also gets lots of fun ias om the other gay weddgs, ” they told CNN. Rabow flags were sprayed wh Nazi symbols Brisbane while “no” advertisements claimed same-sex marriage would lead to “radil gay sex” tn schools.

14, 2017MELBOURNE, Atralia — A solid majory of Atralians voted favor of same-sex marriage a historic survey that, while not bdg, pav the way for Parliament to legally regnize the unns of gay and lbian 12.

ATRALIA SENATE STOPS GAY MARRIAGE VOTE

Proponents of gay rights spent the day celebratg. “This is our proust moment as gay and lbian Atralians, ” said Chris Lewis, 60, an artist om Sydney, who waved a large rabow flag he bought San Francis about 30 years ago. ”Alex Greenwich, a state lawmaker om New South Wal and the -chairman of Atralian Marriage Equaly, an advocy group, said the vote “shows that Atralians have tly e together support of their gay and lbian mat and have said that everybody should be able to have the eedom to marry.

”Dean Smh, a feral senator om the Liberal Party, who is gay, said that he would immediately troduce a bill to legalize same-sex marriage.

His bill would provi addnal anti-discrimatn protectns for relig people and bs opposed to gay marriage. "Image source, EPAImage ptn, Attorney-General Gee Brandis durg the vote for the same-sex marriage plebisce billAttorney-General Gee Brandis acced the Labor Party of "playg polics wh gay people's liv". Atralia’s vote on same-sex marriage has triggered a surprisgly toxic bate for a untry known for s laid back attu and vibrant gay and lbian non-bdg natnwi postal ballot was lnched September and rults are due on Nov 15.

ATRALIA GAY MARRIAGE VOTE 'WILL ST A$0.5BN'

Homophobic attacks and hate speech have spiked while anti-gay marriage activists pla of harassment and abe, promptg parliament to pass emergency anti-hate marriage has long been a hot button issue Atralia, which only crimalized homosexualy natnwi 1997, but the current vote has turbocharged the bate. Thoands of gay rights mpaigners have taken part ralli they hope will help end Atralia’s stat as one the few veloped liberal mocraci where gay upl nnot agast the move have held smaller protts, but have marshaled an imprsive — if ntroversial — TV and digal mpaign urgg Atralians to vote “No. Opn polls recent years have nsistently shown a clear majory of Atralians support gay marriage, and experts say the relevant laws would have easily passed a parliamentary vote.

However, Prime Mister Mallm Turnbull’s center-right Liberal Party has a vol right wg and is aln wh the Natnal Party, which primarily reprents nservative ral though Turnbull said he personally supports gay marriage, his parliamentary majory of jt one seat meant he was unr prsure to honor an earlier promise of a plebisce ma by his precsor Tony the postal survey rult is “Y, ” Turnbull and his nservative lleagu have pledged a ee parliamentary vote on equal Atralia vot “No” the issue is highly unlikely to be revised durg the current Turnbull ernment, and possibly the next ernment should he rema power after 2019 SO BITTER?

ATRALIA SENATE STOPS GAY MARRIAGE VOTE

Advot for the vote say will give all Atralians a say on a key issue, which the se of a “Y” rult will make easier for those agast gay marriage to accept changg the law.

Polilly, has helped the anti-gay marriage mp to slow change, givg them time to try to sway public opn. Protters hold up banners at an anti-same-sex marriage rally Sydney on September 23, Parks / AFP/Getty ImagThose agast the vote say a human right should not be put to a public ballot, and that has given a vol mory a platform to air homophobic views unr the guise of mocratic bate.

’ This has opened the door for broadly anti-LGBTQ rhetoric to be legimized as simply one si of a bate to be ‘rpected, ’” Hannah McCann, genr studi lecturer at Melbourne Universy, told NBC discsn has some rpects morphed to a wir culture war, polarizg Atralia siar ways to the Brex vote Bra and the electn of Donald Tmp the Uned is partly due to the “No” mpaign lkg gay marriage to other issu ar to nservativ an attempt to rally support. More ntroversially, the “No” mpaign has also tied gay marriage to what lls “radil gay sex tn” schools, as well as gay parentg. Earlier this year an ex-farmer shoved a pie to the face of Qantas airl boss and gay marriage advote Alan Joyce as he spoke to 500 people at a bs September, Abbott claimed an equal marriage activist had head-butted him, although his assailant later said the attack had nothg to do wh the outlets have reported a spate of homophobic graffi public spac, homophobic hate speech and attacks on gay rights advot and their far fewer, other reports reunt the vandalism of church by gay rights activists and harassment of “No” voters, cludg a woman who was fired for airg her NEXT?

ATRALIA GAY MARRIAGE VOTE 'WILL ST A$0.5BN'

Opn polls dite the “Y” mpaign is still the lead on a high turnout, although gay rights advot are still pot to surprise nservative ws last year’s Brex vote and Tmp’s electn, and worry that placency uld prs the “Y” “Y” do w, exactly how the right for gay upl to wed will be enshred law is as yet unclear, which uld lead to further polil wranglg. 2 survey also showed that turnout for the voluntary ballot uld be very low, and at jt 58 percent of those aged 18-34 -- the age group viewed as more receptive to gay opposn lear Bill Shorten, who supports the change, told the Sydney rally the ballot was about "our inty as a natn".

Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Crics say the bill will further entrench discrimatory hirg practicAtralia has troduced a new ntroversial bill aimed at protectg relig people om "ncel culture" other thgs, would allow Catholic schools the right to fire teachers or expel gay stunts the name of "relig ethos" Mister Stt Morrison said the Relig Discrimatn Bill, if passed, would ensure protectn for relig people and anisatns, like church, to exprs beliefs.

Equaly Atralia, a gay rights advocy group told the ABC earlier this week: "When… a nurse says to a patient wh HIV that their HIV is a punishment by God, for example…[that] uld nstute a statement of belief, would be protected unr the law unr this bill.

ATRALIANS VOTE 'Y' ON GAY MARRIAGE

The topic of relig discrimatn has been at the centre of several public bat recent years, particularly the wake of Atralia passg same-sex marriage legislatn triggered a ernment quiry - led by nservativ - to whether relig groups felt their right to exprsn was beg like gby player Israel Fol beg sacked om the natnal Wallabi si for sayg on his Instagram that "hell awas" gay people have also spurred the Atralian ernment was cricised earlier this year for awardg an Orr of Atralia honour to tennis player Margaret Court, who has publicly exprsed anti-gay state premiers at the time said Canberra should not have award her the Mr Morrison, a Pentestal Christian, has creasgly rid ncerns about discrimatn as "ncel culture".

Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Polls dite a high level of support for gay marriage AtraliaA stand-alone public vote on same-sex marriage would st Atralia $A525m (£275. The amendment of the feral Marriage Act on 9 December 2017 gave same-sex upl the same right to marry as heterosexual was the culmatn of s of mpaigng by the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, tersex, queer, and asexual (LGBTIQA+) muni and their passg of the Bill the Hoe of Reprentativ was seen as a watershed moment for equal rights Atralia. In 2018, about 76 untri still crimalise homosexual activy.

Penalti for homosexual acts have varied across the stat and terrori but all have clud terms of imprisonment and dividuals were still beg arrted and charged to the 1970s. Decrimalisatn of homosexualyFrom the 1960s the socially progrsive South Atralian Labor ernment wanted to repeal laws crimalisg homosexualy.

ATRALIAN OPPOSN BLOCKS GAY MARRIAGE VOTE

However, was not until the May 1972 murr Alai of Dr Gee Dunn, a law lecturer and gay man, that premier, Don Dunstan, asssed that the muny mood was receptive to Dunn’s murr led to revelatns of how monplace vlence and harassment agast homosexual people Atralia’s Crimal Law (Sexual Offenc) Act, was enacted on 2 October 1975. It was a landmark LGBTQIA+ rights Atralia bee fully crimalised homosexual acts.

‘We are fay’ lead float, Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras Para, 1992. Atralian Marriage Equaly B, Sydney Gay andLbian Mardi Gras, 2012. Atralian Olympic swimmer Ian Thorpe, who me out as gay three years ago, said the rult was a huge relief.

ATRALIA GAY MARRIAGE VOTE 'WILL ST A$0.5BN'

”A marriage equaly bill was troduced to parliament later on rult marks a watershed moment for gay rights Atralia, where was illegal some stat to engage homosexual activy until 1997. TURNBULL TROUBLESIrish-born Qantas Airways Chief Executive Alan Joyce, one of the few openly gay bs lears Atralia, told the Sydney crowd, many of whom sheltered om the sun unr rabow umbrellas, that the rult was “an amazg oute” and urged Turnbull to move quickly on legislatn. Atralian vote on gay marriage will proceed after urt dismiss challenge.

GAY MARRIAGE ATRALIA UNLIKELY FOR YEARS AFTER PUBLIC VOTE PLAN REJECTED

Gay rights advot argued the ernment did not have the nstutnal power to survey the public through a unique postal ballot Published: 3:41pm, 7 Sep, 2017 Updated: 10:30pm, 7 Sep, 2017 Supporters of same-sex marriage outsi the High Court Melbourne. Ci celebrate Gay Pri Month. Gay pri para obstcted by Turkish police.

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A natnal referendum on gay marriage is planned for 2017. The untry’s nservative Liberal ernment had planned to hold a natnal plebisce, siar to a referendum, on whether or not to allow gay upl to marry Febary 2017.

CELEBRATE THE ATRALIAN GAY MARRIAGE VOTE AMAZG STYLE WH THE CREDIBLE RABOW HAIRDOS

Atralian Natnal Universy School of Polics profsor John Warhurst said was now very likely the natnal vote would not happen, and no other mov on gay marriage may be ma for years.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

A gay rights activist holds a plard durg a rally supportg same-sex marriage, Sydney, Atralia May 31, 2015.

“Look at the UK where a Jewish school London faced the prospect of closure bee won’t teach radil LGBTIQ tn, ” he told Rters a phone terview, referrg to the acronym for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, tersex and queer/qutng people. Atralian Marriage Equaly rpond on Thursday wh an advert sayg same-sex marriage would give young gay people the same digny as everyone else. Spokwoman Kerryn Phelps said gay and lbian unselg servic were undated by people distrsed that their liv and relatnships had been put up for judgment.

ATRALIANS VOTE 'Y' ON GAY MARRIAGE

Atralian opposn blocks gay marriage vote. CANBERRA, Atralia The Atralian opposn on Tuday cid to block ernment plans for a public but non-bdg vote on regnizg gay marriage, argug would better if the issue was cid Parliament. Prime Mister Mallm Turnbull’s nservative aln ernment needs center-left Labor Party’s support to get enablg legislatn through the Senate to hold a natnal vote on gay marriage on Feb.

While Labor supports gay marriage, argu the plebisce would trigger a divisive public bate. ” The ernment late Monday released draft amendments to the feral marriage law that would be put to Parliament if a majory of Atralians endorse gay marriage the plebisce. Most gay rights advot fear that an aggrsive sre mpaign uld rult the plebisce failg, puttg same-sex marriage off the natnal agenda for s.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

Some nservative lawmakers have said they will vote agast gay marriage Parliament even if a majory of Atralians support . Relig misters and officials would be allowed to refe to officiate at same-sex marriag and church would be allowed to refe to provi facili, goods and servic for gay weddgs.