Atralia Is Havg A Plebisce On Gay Marriage -- Here's What That Means

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• GAY MARRIAGE PLEBISCE ST TO BLOW OUTA SENR OFFICIAL WH THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL'S DEPARTMENT SAYS THE $160 LN ALLOTED FOR A SAME-SEX MARRIAGE PLEBISCE IS ONLY AN "DITIVE AMOUNT".FILE IMAGE. SOURCE: AAPTHE ST OF A PLEBISCE ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE IS LIKELY TO BLOW OUT TO MORE THAN THE $160 LN ALREADY ALLOTED, A SENATE MTEE HAS BEEN TOLD.GREG MANNG, A SENR OFFICIAL WH THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL'S DEPARTMENT, TOLD A SENATE TIMAT HEARG ON THURSDAY THE FIGURE WAS BT SCRIBED AS A "PNT ALLOTN" AND "AN DITIVE AMOUNT".FAL STGS WOULD BE TERMED ONCE THE ERNMENT FALIS THE MOL FOR THE PLEBISCE.THE TIMATED ST OF THE PLEBISCE WAS ALSO BASED ON THE TWO OPPOSG SIS RECEIVG NO PUBLIC FUNDG FOR THEIR MPAIGNS BEYOND MONEY FOR A PAMPHLET.IT HAS ALSO BEEN NFIRMED THE ERNMENT IS NSIRG GIVG MONEY TO BOTH SIS THE PLEBISCE, EXPECTED TO BE HELD THIS YEAR IF THE TURNBULL ERNMENT IS RE-ELECTED, BUT THAT NO FAL CISN HAS BEEN MA.THE MONEY WOULD E ON TOP OF THE $160 LN ALLOTED TUDAY'S FERAL BUDGET."WERE THERE TO BE AN ALLOTN OF PUBLIC MONEY THEN OF URSE BOTH SIS OF THE ARGUMENT WOULD BE ENTLED TO EQUAL TREATMENT," ATTORNEY-GENERAL GEE BRANDIS TOLD THE SENATE HEARG."WERE THERE TO BE PUBLIC FUNDG, OBVLY ONE OF THE ISSU WOULD BE THE APPROPRIATE RECIPIENTS ON BEHALF OF THE `Y' OR THE `NO' SE OF PUBLIC FUNDG."IT'S POSSIBLE, IF NOT LIKELY, THAT GROUPS SUCH AS THE ATRALIAN CHRISTIAN LOBBY AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, BOTH OPPOSED TO GAY MARRIAGE, WOULD RECEIVE TAXPAYER DOLLARS TO ARGUE THEIR SE.SENATOR BRANDIS SAID HE HAD MET WH REPRENTATIV OF BOTH SIS THE BATE OVER GAY MARRIAGE, AS THE ERNMENT NTU TO WORK ON THE FAL MOL FOR THE PLEBISCE.THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL ALSO NFIRMED THE ERNMENT DID NOT SUPPORT LLS OM ADVOT FOR A "NO" VOTE FOR ANTI-DISCRIMATN LAWS TO BE SPEND IF MPAIGN GO AHEAD."THAT IS NOT THE ERNMENT'S POSN," HE SAID.THE ATRALIAN ELECTORAL COMMISSN LATER TOLD THE MTEE HAD NOT BEEN ASKED TO DO ANY WORK PREPARATN FOR THE PLEBISCE.AEC MISSNER TOM ROGERS SAID THE $160 LN PUT TO THE NTGENCY FUND WOULD HAVE BEEN BASED ON AN DITIVE STG HE HAD GIVEN LAST YEAR OF $158.4 LN.ASKED WHETHER VOTG WOULD NEED TO BE PULSORY, AS AT A GENERAL ELECTN, MR ROGERS SAID: "THAT WOULD BE A CHOICE FOR ERNMENT."SHARE3 M READPUBLISHED 5 MAY 2016 6:24PMUPDATED 12 MAY 2016 7:51AMSOURCE: AAPTAGSSOCIAL ISSUBSSHARE THIS WH FAY AND IENDSCOPY LKSHAREREMEND FOR YOU
• GAY MARRIAGE: PLEBISCE TO ST $525M, WILL ‘EXPOSE PEOPLE TO HATE’
• THE HUMAN COST OF ATRALIA’S GAY MARRIAGE PLEBISCE
• THE HIGH ST OF GAY MARRIAGE PLEBISCE
• GAY MARRIAGE PLEBISCE TIMATED TO ST ATRALIA $525 LN: PWC
• GAY MARRIAGE PLEBISCE ST TO BLOW OUT
• EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE PLEBISCE
• RSIAN NSTUTN CHANGE ENDS HOP FOR GAY MARRIAGE
• ATRALIA IS HAVG A PLEBISCE ON GAY MARRIAGE -- HERE'S WHAT THAT MEANS
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
• THE ATRALIAN GAY MARRIAGE PLEBISCE: WHEN TOO MUCH DEMOCRACY IS A BAD THG
• GAY MOSW · CY GUI
• RSIA BANS MOSW GAY PRI CELEBRATNS FOR 100 YEARS

GAY MARRIAGE PLEBISCE ST TO BLOW OUTA SENR OFFICIAL WH THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL'S DEPARTMENT SAYS THE $160 LN ALLOTED FOR A SAME-SEX MARRIAGE PLEBISCE IS ONLY AN "DITIVE AMOUNT".FILE IMAGE. SOURCE: AAPTHE ST OF A PLEBISCE ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE IS LIKELY TO BLOW OUT TO MORE THAN THE $160 LN ALREADY ALLOTED, A SENATE MTEE HAS BEEN TOLD.GREG MANNG, A SENR OFFICIAL WH THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL'S DEPARTMENT, TOLD A SENATE TIMAT HEARG ON THURSDAY THE FIGURE WAS BT SCRIBED AS A "PNT ALLOTN" AND "AN DITIVE AMOUNT".FAL STGS WOULD BE TERMED ONCE THE ERNMENT FALIS THE MOL FOR THE PLEBISCE.THE TIMATED ST OF THE PLEBISCE WAS ALSO BASED ON THE TWO OPPOSG SIS RECEIVG NO PUBLIC FUNDG FOR THEIR MPAIGNS BEYOND MONEY FOR A PAMPHLET.IT HAS ALSO BEEN NFIRMED THE ERNMENT IS NSIRG GIVG MONEY TO BOTH SIS THE PLEBISCE, EXPECTED TO BE HELD THIS YEAR IF THE TURNBULL ERNMENT IS RE-ELECTED, BUT THAT NO FAL CISN HAS BEEN MA.THE MONEY WOULD E ON TOP OF THE $160 LN ALLOTED TUDAY'S FERAL BUDGET."WERE THERE TO BE AN ALLOTN OF PUBLIC MONEY THEN OF URSE BOTH SIS OF THE ARGUMENT WOULD BE ENTLED TO EQUAL TREATMENT," ATTORNEY-GENERAL GEE BRANDIS TOLD THE SENATE HEARG."WERE THERE TO BE PUBLIC FUNDG, OBVLY ONE OF THE ISSU WOULD BE THE APPROPRIATE RECIPIENTS ON BEHALF OF THE `Y' OR THE `NO' SE OF PUBLIC FUNDG."IT'S POSSIBLE, IF NOT LIKELY, THAT GROUPS SUCH AS THE ATRALIAN CHRISTIAN LOBBY AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, BOTH OPPOSED TO GAY MARRIAGE, WOULD RECEIVE TAXPAYER DOLLARS TO ARGUE THEIR SE.SENATOR BRANDIS SAID HE HAD MET WH REPRENTATIV OF BOTH SIS THE BATE OVER GAY MARRIAGE, AS THE ERNMENT NTU TO WORK ON THE FAL MOL FOR THE PLEBISCE.THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL ALSO NFIRMED THE ERNMENT DID NOT SUPPORT LLS OM ADVOT FOR A "NO" VOTE FOR ANTI-DISCRIMATN LAWS TO BE SPEND IF MPAIGN GO AHEAD."THAT IS NOT THE ERNMENT'S POSN," HE SAID.THE ATRALIAN ELECTORAL COMMISSN LATER TOLD THE MTEE HAD NOT BEEN ASKED TO DO ANY WORK PREPARATN FOR THE PLEBISCE.AEC MISSNER TOM ROGERS SAID THE $160 LN PUT TO THE NTGENCY FUND WOULD HAVE BEEN BASED ON AN DITIVE STG HE HAD GIVEN LAST YEAR OF $158.4 LN.ASKED WHETHER VOTG WOULD NEED TO BE PULSORY, AS AT A GENERAL ELECTN, MR ROGERS SAID: "THAT WOULD BE A CHOICE FOR ERNMENT."SHARE3 M READPUBLISHED 5 MAY 2016 6:24PMUPDATED 12 MAY 2016 7:51AMSOURCE: AAPTAGSSOCIAL ISSUBSSHARE THIS WH FAY AND IENDSCOPY LKSHAREREMEND FOR YOU

A stand-alone plebisce on same-sex marriage uld st the Atralian enomy more than half a billn dollars, acrdg to new pots:PwC mollg fds gay marriage plebisce would rult $280m lost productivyThat st on top of $158m for natnwi mpaignOther sts clud impact on mental health and wellbeg of LGBTI munyCost would be rced to $113m if the plebisce was held at same time as electnMollg unrtaken by acuntg firm PwC says would rult $280 ln of lost productivy, on top of the st of nng the natnwi mpaign, timated at $158 ln by the Atralian Electoral st to the muny of fundg the two mpaigns for and agast the proposal would st $66 ln, while the impact on the mental health and wellbeg of the gay and lbian muny amounts to $20 Atralia chief executive Le Sayers said the real st of the plebisce was three tim what has been quoted by the Feral Government. The “te st” of a plebisce on same-sex marriage may be more than triple the feral ernment’s timate of $160m, partly bee of mental health harms to lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex Atralians, a report says. The report timated 50, 000 people – 5% of gay, lbian and bisexual Atralians – would seek treatment for anxiety or affective disorrs as a rult of divisive public PwC report noted LGBTI Atralians suffered higher levels of psychologil distrs and would be further harmed by a “high profile, natnal, public bate that will likely extend over a number of months”.

Whout the Nick Xenophon Team's support for the legislatn, the Government nnot rely on the crossbench, leavg the stg vote up to Labor the is holdg off on a fal cisn but has been raisg ser ncerns about a plebisce through the Opposn Lear Bill Shorten and other senr MPs and party has also been privately briefg reporters that will eventually block the there is a polil hch bee once a plebisce is off the table, the Labor Party is unlikely to be able to force a ee vote of both ho s are fears that uld punt the issue off to the next term of parliament, ensurg there is no prospect of gay people beg able to marry before the next do mean for voters?

GAY MARRIAGE: PLEBISCE TO ST $525M, WILL ‘EXPOSE PEOPLE TO HATE’

"It's possible, if not likely, that groups such as the Atralian Christian Lobby and the Catholic Church, both opposed to gay marriage, would receive taxpayer dollars to argue their se.

Senator Brandis said he had met wh reprentativ of both sis the bate over gay marriage, as the ernment ntu to work on the fal mol for the attorney-general also nfirmed the ernment did not support lls om advot for a "no" vote for anti-discrimatn laws to be spend if mpaign go ahead.

A PLEBISCITE on marriage equaly is not only a massive waste of taxpayer money but is helpg perpetuate a wave of hate agast gay, lbian and transgenr ’s the view of marriage equaly advote Profsor Kerryn Phelps who warned all this talk of a plebisce is g unnecsary mental distrs for the LGBT muny. Neher do Atralia have laws—as other untri do—that curtail the right to ee exprsn or hib eedom of associatn for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people. In Atralia, means gay and lbian brothers, sisters, fathers, mothers, and neighbors have to ask their k, their muny, and total strangers, “Are you OK wh me gettg married?

THE HUMAN COST OF ATRALIA’S GAY MARRIAGE PLEBISCE

And while polls suggt that many Atralians are ready for same-sex marriage, holdg a plebisce giv a tac legimacy to objectns that clu equatg homosexualy wh btialy to sre tactics claimg that marriage equaly will lim relig eedom.

Gay marriage plebisce timated to st Atralia $525 ln: PwCTODAY the Turnbull Government revealed a postal vote on same sex marriage uld st $122 ln but that’s nothg pared to the st of a full Government’s plan for a natnal plebisce on same-sex marriage won’t e cheap. Atralians will get their say on whether to make gay marriage legal before November 25 if they are unable to secure support for a tradnal plebisce Parliament this the voluntary postal plebisce, which looks the most likely scenar — will be a stly exercise, wh no guarantee of marriage equaly the Mister Mallm Turnbull today announced the postal ballot would be entsted to the Atralian Bure of Statistics, wh assistance om Atralian Electoral Commissn officers.

”But, 2013, the High Court found that marriage the Constutn clus “a marriage between persons of the same sex” and that “unr the Constutn and feral law as now stands, whether same sex marriage should be provid for by law is a matter for the feral Parliament” ma clear the feral ernment had the power to enact marriage more and more untri began legalisg gay marriage, Atralia was left behd.

THE HIGH ST OF GAY MARRIAGE PLEBISCE

”Mr Turnbull has prevly been an advote on the issue (his electorate of Wentworth Sydney’s eastern suburbs has a high ncentratn of homosexual rints), nfirmg both he and wife Lucy are favour of same-sex due to a number of nservative aln MPs strongly held views, a plebisce is seen as an alternative PLEBISCITEAfter the failure last year to ph the plebisce through parliament, yterday's party room meetg sentially voted favour of a back up plan - a postal plebisce.

“The ernment is absolutely mted to keep fah wh the mment that we ma to the Atralian people and that is to give Atralian people a say on whether or not the fn of marriage should be changed, ” Senator Cormann more: Ele Catholic schools fend gay marriageWHAT WOULD BE NEEDED FOR THE PLEBISCITE TO 'PASS'? It also provis a platform for those opposed to misrm the public and air anti-gay views. A prehensive “no” vote uld ph the issue back s, siar to what happened wh the Atralian republic bate after the 1999 only circu-breaker would be a swch om the Coaln to a Labor ernment, which would likely have the numbers to get gay marriage over the le.

CONSEQUENCESA plebisce would give anti-gay mpaigners the biggt stage they have ever had, acrdg to quot US rearch, which has shown that the mental health of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex (LGBTI) people suffered signifintly durg referendum bat on marriage LGBTI people who experienced a US state referendum on marriage equaly there was a 37 per cent crease mood disorrs, a 42 per cent crease alhol-e disorrs, and a 248 per cent generalised anxiety disorrs.

GAY MARRIAGE PLEBISCE TIMATED TO ST ATRALIA $525 LN: PWC

Universy of Sydney psychologists found that the creased exposure to negative msagg durg the long and divisive bate ed “psychologil distrs” for gay, lbian and bisexual people. ”Different segments of the muny felt the impacts of the No mpaign more signifintly, she said, particularly those regnal areas, people who aren’t out, and addn, olr gay, lbian and bisexual Atralians who rell the nasts of still relatively recent bat about crimalisg homosexualy would’ve likely been “retrmatised”. Although Rsia crimalized homosexualy s ago, animosy agast gays remas high.

In 2012, the Mosw cy ernment orred that gay pri paras be banned for the next 100 years.

Attacks on the gay muny persist. Dozens of other activists received ath threats om an obscure anti-gay group that claimed rponsibily for the killg of Grigoryeva, who was stabbed repeatedly and showed signs of 2017, reports of extrajudicial arrts, torture and killgs of gay men the republic of Chechnya drew ternatnal year, Andrei Vaganov and Yevgeny Yerofeyev, a uple raisg two adopted children, had to flee Rsia after a doctor reported them to police and thori opened a crimal se.

GAY MARRIAGE PLEBISCE ST TO BLOW OUT

Adoptn by same-sex upl is banned Rsia, but Vaganov had applied as a sgle Olenichev, a lawyer wh the Comg Out gay rights group, said there are stanc of tolerance by some urts.

He said he has worked on seven ctody s which judg refed to take away ctody, sayg that sexual orientatn don’t play a role a child’s he is ncerned that the nstutnal chang will enurage anti-gay views.

EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE PLEBISCE

“Our society really looks up to what the ernment do, so any kds of public actns promotg homophobia, transphobia, biphobia, many people may perceive as a ll for actn. ”Print Vladimir Put has rejected cricism of the nstutnal amendments and the gay propaganda said that some untri, “crimal law provisns still exist unr which people of nontradnal sexual orientatn n be persecuted crimally, as was the Soviet Unn.

RSIAN NSTUTN CHANGE ENDS HOP FOR GAY MARRIAGE

More on Forb: The Asian Countri Are The Most Likely To Adopt A Gay Marriage Law. However, spe this, Prime Mister Turnbull has exprsed that he would not support a bill relatg to gay marriage until there is a vote of the Atralian people.

Marriage equaly activists fear this uld equate to ceptive and hateful material aimed at Atralia’s gay muny. Homosexualy is legal, although a vaguely-word 2013 law prohibs the promotn of ‘non-tradnal’ relatnships.

As such, gay travellers are advised agast overt displays of their sexualy. That said, the vast majory of viss rema trouble-ee, even for visors who equent the cy’s ls-than-secret gay bar and club bt hotels MoswThe historic exterr of the Hotel Metropol, facg the ternatnally-celebrated Bolshoi Theatre and close to many of the other ma thgs to do Mosw, is nothg pared to s sumptuo terrs. The rpeted terrs give this stay a homely ambience, which marri well wh breakfast – which is served your CrewiRemend hotels Gay Mosw - Mosw.

ATRALIA IS HAVG A PLEBISCE ON GAY MARRIAGE -- HERE'S WHAT THAT MEANS

Atralia don’t yet have gay marriage. We on the rrect si of the bate here ll “marriage equaly, ” rather than “gay marriage, ” to unrsre that is a human rights issue and discrimatory to thk otherwise. Bis, today’s landspe of genr fluidy etc, not everyone a same-sex relatnship intifi as gay.

It is tertg tim Atralian polics for gay rights. Already policians are warng that they don’t want the blood of suicid gay teenagers on their hands.

In an unexpected turn of events, gay activists are celebratg the likely feat of the plebisce enablg legislatn. This is not jt about gay rights, ’s about human rights and basic human digny too.

GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI

Moskva River & Grand Kreml PalaceGay Rights and the Suatn RsiaThe UK Foreign Office reports that "Homosexualy is legal Rsia, but there is still tolerance among some sectns of the populatn. " (read more here)The bt advice is for gay travelers to act and drs nservatively at all tim.

THE ATRALIAN GAY MARRIAGE PLEBISCE: WHEN TOO MUCH DEMOCRACY IS A BAD THG

For safety, gay upl should not brg attentn to their relatnship public, for example, by holdg hands, even tourist areas, hotels or aware that hookg up wh guys via datg apps has risks.

There have been s of homophobic people g the apps to lure gay men to meetgs at which they are attacked and robbed.

Basil Cathedral - Red SquareGay SceneUnrstandably, Rsia's gay scene is low profile and rather discreet. Gay public displays of affectn is not very mon, but this smopolan Rsian pal cy may be gayer than you might thk.

GAY MOSW · CY GUI

Although Mosw don't have a dited 'Gay District', the cy's gay nightlife has bee more visible recent years. Many bars and rtrants host gay nights.

'Gay-popular' bars and dance clubs n be found all around the Kreml - Central Statn MSK beg the most notable one.

Tverskoy is great for sightseeg, the theatr and gay latt hotel als Mosw are listed on the Gay Mosw Hotels to See & DoRed Square (Krasnaya Ploshchad) - the heart of Mosw and the cy’s most famo tourist Kreml (Moskovsky Kreml) - a huge se wh The Diamond llectn the Armoury and several amazg church. At the end of gay pri month, Rsians voted on a nstutnal amendment that f marriage as solely between a man and a woman. Rsia has never legalized gay marriage and also has a “gay propaganda” law, which bans any public discsn or support of homosexualy among mors.

RSIA BANS MOSW GAY PRI CELEBRATNS FOR 100 YEARS

They said they “affirm the herent digny of each dividual as exprsed the Universal Declaratn of Human Rights and ll upon the ernment of the Rsian Feratn to adhere to s stated mment to protectg the rights of all cizens, cludg the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex (LGBTI) muny. Along wh much of the Wt’s lls to uphold LGBTQ rights, activists are ncerned that the passage of the amendment may promote tolerance and vlence towards homosexuals, which creased after the “gay propaganda” law passed, acrdg to the Human Rights Watch Campaign.

Internatnal lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) rights advot are cryg foul after a top urt led to uphold a ban on Pri march Mosw for the next 100 years. "We will appeal agast the actns taken by the Rsian thori, which have banned gay pri paras Mosw for the next 100 years, the European Court of Human Rights the neart future, " he was quoted by Interfax as sayg. "Th, we will get the validatn of the bans not only on past, but also future gay pri paras the Rsian pal.

Petersburg's ntroversial "homosexual propaganda" law, which had been ntroduced by lawmakers Rsia's send-largt cy Febary, acrdg to the Associated Prs. Petersburg law, dividuals nvicted of promotg homosexualy to mors uld be fed up to 5, 000 bl ($172) and anizatns uld be fed up to 500, 000 bl ($17, 200). As Rad Free Europe/Rad Liberty pots out, the legislatn also appears to equate homosexualy wh pedophilia by levyg the same f for pedophilic "propaganda.