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

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• GAY MARRIAGE ATRALIA UNLIKELY FOR YEARS AFTER PUBLIC VOTE PLAN REJECTED
• EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE PLEBISCE
• 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
• ATRALIA IS HAVG A PLEBISCE ON GAY MARRIAGE -- HERE'S WHAT THAT MEANS
• SAME-SEX MARRIAGE BILL TRODUCED TO SENATE ON DAY OF HISTORIC Y VOTETHE ATRALIAN PEOPLE HAVE VOTED FAVOUR OF LEGALISG SAME-SEX MARRIAGE THE ERNMENT'S VOLUNTARY POSTAL SURVEY, TRIGGERG MALLM TURNBULL'S PROMISE TO CHANGE THE MARRIAGE ACT.KEY POTS:Y WS: 61 PER CENT OF ATRALIANS VOTE TO LEGALISE SAME-SEX MARRIAGEMALLM TURNBULL WANTS TO MAKE LEGAL BY CHRISTMAS DEAN SMH'S BILL TO CHANGE THE MARRIAGE ACT TRODUCED SENATECOALN NSERVATIV WANT STRONGER RELIG EXEMPTNSTHE SENATE WILL ON THURSDAY BATE THE WORDG OF A BILL TO CHANGE THE MARRIAGE ACT, AFTER ATRALIANS VOTED CISIVELY FAVOUR OF ALLOWG SAME-SEX UPL TO MARRY A LANDMARK NATNAL SURVEY. THE Y VOTE TRIUMPHED THE ATRALIAN MARRIAGE LAW POSTAL SURVEY, ACUNTG FOR 61.6 PER CENT OF THE VOTE, WHILE 38.4 PER CENT OF RPONNTS VOTED NO. A PRIVATE MEMBER'S BILL, -SPONSORED BY BOTH MAJOR PARTI, WAS TRODUCED THE SENATE LATE ON WEDNDAY AFTERNOON, KICKG OFF A LEGISLATIVE PROCS THAT ULD SEE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE LEGALISED BY CHRISTMAS. THE RULTS OF THE ATRALIAN MARRIAGE LAW POSTAL SURVEY WERE ANNOUNCED ON WEDNDAY MORNG BY THE HEAD OF THE ATRALIAN BURE OF STATISTICS DAVID KALISCH, ENDG A DIVISIVE THREE-MONTH MPAIGN. RELATED READINGMARRIAGE EQUALY'S NEXT HURDLE: THE LEGAL STOH OVER HUMAN RIGHTS EXPLAEDCELEBRATNS WERE APLENTY OUTSI THE STATE LIBRARY OF VICTORIA MELBOURNE ON WEDNDAY. SOURCE: GETTY IMAGDPE SOME EARLY CRICISMS THAT THE E OF THE POSTAL SYSTEM WOULD MAKE THE SURVEY ACCSIBLE, AN OVERWHELMG 79.5 PER CENT OF ATRALIAN VOTERS DID PARTICIPATE, WHAT THE CHIEF STATISTICIAN LLED AN "OUTSTANDG" TURNOUT.WOMEN RPOND GREATER NUMBERS THAN MEN AT 81.6 PER CENT AND 77.3 PER CENT RPECTIVELY. YOUNG VOTERS ALSO TURNED OUT STRONG NUMBERS WH 78 PER CENT OF THOSE AGED 18-19 AND 72 PER CENT OF THOSE AGED 20-24 MAKG TO A POST OFFICE WH THEIR PLETED FORMS.AT THE OTHER END OF THE SPECTM, 80 PER CENT OF ATRALIANS OLR THAN 85 VOTED. SAME-SEX MARRIAGE WILL NOW ALMOST CERTALY BE LEGALISED ATRALIA THROUGH A CHANGE TO THE MARRIAGE ACT.RELATED READINGATRALIAN MARRIAGE LAW EXPLAED: WHAT BENEFS DO MARRIED UPL HAVE THAT FACTO UPL DON'T? SOURCE: ABSA SAME-SEX MARRIAGE SUPPORTER WAV A WHE FLAG WH 'OUR LOVE IS REAL' WRTEN ON SYDNEY ON THE DAY OF THE ANNOUNCEMENT. SOURCE: GETTY IMAGTURNBULL PLEDG TO CHANGE THE LAW BY CHRISTMASPRIME MISTER MALLM TURNBULL SAID HE WAS MTED TO CHANGG THE LAW BY CHRISTMAS."NOW IS UP TO HERE THE PARLIAMENT OF ATRALIA TO GET ON WH , TO GET ON WH THE JOB THE ATRALIAN PEOPLE HAVE TASKED TO DO AND GET THIS DONE THIS YEAR BEFORE CHRISTMAS," MR TURNBULL SAID, SPEAKG IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWG THE ABS ANNOUNCEMENT."THE ATRALIAN PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN THEIR LNS AND THEY HAVE VOTED OVERWHELMGLY Y FOR MARRIAGE EQUALY. THEY VOTED Y FOR FAIRNS, THEY VOTED Y FOR MMENT, THEY VOTED Y FOR LOVE," MR TURNBULL SAID.MR TURNBULL HAS PREVLY SAID HE EXPECTED A PRIVATE MEMBER'S BILL TO "SAIL THROUGH PARLIAMENT". WHILE SENATOR DEAN SMH'S BILL HAS ALREADY BEEN TRODUCED TO THE SENATE, THE LAW NNOT BE CHANGED UNTIL THE HOE OF REPRENTATIV RENVEN FOR THE LAST STG FORTNIGHT OF PARLIAMENT, WHICH BEGS ON NOVEMBER 27. LABOR LEAR BILL SHORTEN IS ALSO PHG FOR THE LAW TO BE CHANGED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE."TODAY WE CELEBRATE, TOMORROW WE LEGISLATE!" MR SHORTEN TOLD A GATHERED CROWD.DAVID BRYANT AND NICK HIGGS CELEBRATE THE RULT ANNOUNCEMENT ON NOVEMBER 15, 2017 SYDNEY. SOURCE: GETTY IMAGCONSERVATIVE LIBERALS PH FOR STRONGER RELIG EXEMPTNSEXACTLY HOW THE MARRIAGE ACT WILL CHANGE REMAS AN ACTIVE BATE WH THE COALN. CONSERVATIVE LIBERALS ARE PHG FOR STRONGER RELIG PROTECTNS, TO SHIELD DIVIDUALS AND PANI WHO DID NOT WANT TO PARTICIPATE SAME-SEX WEDDGS. TWO LIBERAL SENATORS HAD RELEASED VERY DIFFERENT BILLS - THE MORATE-BACKED DEAN SMH BILL, WHICH WAS TRODUCED TO THE SENATE ON WEDNDAY, AND THE JAM PATERSON BILL FAVOURED BY NSERVATIV.BUT LATE ON WEDNDAY EVENG, SENATOR PATERSON DROPPED HIS PLAN TO TRODUCE A PETG BILL. HE NOW PLANS TO NEGOTIATE AMENDMENTS TO THE SMH BILL STEAD. WHILE THE SMH BILL ALLOWS CHURCH TO REFE TO MARRY SAME-SEX UPL, THE PATERSON BILL WOULD HAVE ALLOWED ANYONE WH A RELIG OR MORAL OBJECTN TO REFE TO PARTICIPATE THE PROCS – CLUDG FLORISTS, BAKERS AND MICIANS.IT WOULD ALSO PROTECT ANYONE VOICG OR ACTG ON A BELIEF THAT MARRIAGE SHOULD ONLY BE BETWEEN A MAN AND A WOMAN OM DISCRIMATN AND VILIFITN LAWS.COALN FOR MARRIAGE'S LYLE SHELTON LIVERS A SPEECH TO THE NO MP ON WEDNDAY. SOURCE: GETTY IMAGMR TURNBULL HAS DITED HIS PREFERENCE FOR THE SMH BILL, WHICH HAS BEEN -SPONSORED BY LABOR AND THE GREENS."THE SMH BILL HAS THE ADVANTAGE OF HAVG BEEN AROUND FOR SOME MONTHS NOW. EVERYONE IS FAIAR WH , HAS A WI GREE OF SUPPORT ACROSS THE CHAMBERS," HE SAID.BUT MR TURNBULL DID NOT LE OUT AMENDMENTS TO THE WORDG."OF URSE THERE'S THE OPPORTUNY TO MOVE AMENDMENTS AND IMPROVE ," HE SAID. SENATOR DEAN SMH HIMSELF SAID CHANG ULD BE NSIRED, BUT UTNED AGAST THE PROVISNS THE NSERVATIV' BILL THAT WOULD ALLOW SERVICE PROVIRS TO DISCRIMATE AGAST SAME-SEX UPL WHO WERE PLANNG THEIR WEDDGS. "IF THERE ARE AMENDMENTS, LET'S SEE THEM. BUT LET'S BE VERY CLEAR ABOUT THIS: ATRALIANS DID NOT PARTICIPATE A SURVEY TO HAVE ONE DISCRIMATN PLANK REMOVED, TO HAVE OTHER PLANKS OF DISCRIMATN PILED UPON THEM," SENATOR SMH SAID. ATTORNEY-GENERAL GEE BRANDIS SAID HE WOULD SUPPORT AN AMENMENT THAT ALLOWED CIVIL CELEBRANTS - AS WELL AS RELIG CELEBRANTS - TO REFE TO MARRY SAME-SEX UPL. SOURCE: ABS SOURCE: ABS'DEMOCRACY HASN'T GONE OUR WAY'LYLE SHELTON, THE HEAD OF THE ATRALIAN CHRISTIAN LOBBY AND SPOKMAN FOR THE NO MPAIGN, SAID THE RULT WAS "CISIVE" AND NGRATULATED THE OPPOSG MPAIGN ON THEIR VICTORY."DEMOCRACY HASN'T GONE OUR WAY TODAY BUT I THANK GOD THAT WE LIVE  A EE AND OPEN AND MOCRATIC SOCIETY AND I TST THOSE PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN ENERGISED BY THIS MPAIGN WILL NTUE TO PARTICIPATE OUR MOCRACY," HE SAID.HE CREDED THE VICTORY TO A LONG-NNG AND VIGORO Y MPAIGN."AS EVERYONE WILL KNOW, THEY HAVE BEEN MPAIGNG FOR AT LEAST A ," MR SHELTON SAID. "THIS IS A MOCRACY. THEY HAVE BEEN RELENTLS THIS AND THEY HAVE SEEN THE U OF THEIR RELENTLSNS."BUT HE SAID THE NO MPAIGN'S EFFORTS WOULD NOW REFOC "ON THE PARLIAMENTARY PROCS".MR SHELTON SCRIBED THE RELIG PROTECTNS THE NOW-ABANDONED PATERSON BILL AS THE "BARE MIMUM".LIBERAL MP CRAIG KELLY, WHO SUPPORTED THE NO VOTE, SAID HE WOULD VOTE FOR SAME-SEX MARRIAGE THE PARLIAMENT BEE A 58 PER CENT MAJORY HIS ELECTORATE OF HUGH VOTED Y. FELLOW LIBERAL MP KEV ANDREWS, WHO SUPPORTED THE NO MPAIGN, SAID BAKERS SHOULD BE GIVEN THE RIGHT TO REFE TO SERVICE SAME-SEX WEDDGS. HE SAID A GAY BAKER OR A JEWISH BAKER SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO REFE TO SERVICE AN ISLAMIC WEDDG TOO, AND VICE VERSA. "IT HAS TO BE NSISTENT," HE SAID.STRONG NO VOTE WTERN SYDNEY SEATS HELD BY LABORAROUND THE UNTRY, 133 ELECTORAT VOTED Y WHILE 17 VOTED NO.BUT SOME OF THE STRONGT NO RULTS WERE LABOR SEATS, SPE THE PARTY'S OFFICIAL ELECTN PROMISE TO SUPPORT SAME-SEX MARRIAGE.TEN OF THE NO-VOTG SEATS WERE LOTED WT AND SOUTH-WT SYDNEY.SUPPORT FOR SAME-SEX MARRIAGE WAS LOWT THE LABOR MP JASON CLARE'S SEAT OF BLAXLAND, WHERE JT 26 PER CENT OF VOTERS WANTED THE LAW TO CHANGE.IN ADJACENT WATSON, ALSO SYDNEY'S SOUTH-WT, ONLY 30 PER CENT VOTED Y.WATSON'S LOL MP IS LABOR'S TONY BURKE, WHO SAID HE WOULD STILL BE SUPPORTG THE Y POSN THE PARLIAMENT."I WENT TO THE LAST ELECTN WH A MMENT TO VOTE Y. THAT DON'T CHANGE," MR BURKE SAID."MY MUNY KNOWS THAT IF THEY ARE TREATED WH PREJUDICE, VILIFIED OR MARGALISED ANY WAY I WILL STAND UP FOR THEM REGARDLS OF POLLS. THE SAME APPLI TO THIS ISSUE."TIMELE OF SAME-SEX RIGHTS ATRALIA1961: ATRALIA TRODUC S FIRST MARRIAGE ACT, BUT DO NOT CLU A FORMAL FN OF MARRIAGE1975: SOUTH ATRALIA BE THE FIRST STATE TO CRIMALISE MALE HOMOSEXUALY1976-1997: OTHER STAT AND TERRORI CRIMALISE MALE HOMOSEXUALY2004: THE MARRIAGE ACT IS AMEND TO ADD THE FN THAT "MARRIAGE MEANS THE UNN OF A MAN AND A WOMAN TO THE EXCLN OF ALL OTHERS"2009: DE FACTO UPL ARE GIVEN SIAR RIGHTS TO THOSE WHO ARE MARRIED2013: FERAL LABOR ERNMENT MAK UNLAWFUL TO DISCRIMATE AGAST LGBTIQ (LBIAN, GAY, BI, TRANS, TERSEX, QUEER) PEOPLE2015: CONSERVATIVE ALN ERNMENT MS TO A NATNAL PLEBISCE PROPOSAL ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGENOVEMBER 2016: UPPER HOE SENATE REBUFFS THE ERNMENT'S PLANS FOR A NATNAL PLEBISCE ON GAY UNNSAUGT 2017: SENATE KNOCKS BACKS NATNAL PLEBISCE PROPOSAL AGA, ERNMENT PH AHEAD WH A NATNAL VOLUNTARY POSTAL VOTESEPTEMBER 2017: BALLOT PAPERS FOR THE POSTAL VOTE ARE SENT OUTNOVEMBER 15, 2017: SOME 61.6 PERCENT OF ELIGIBLE ATRALIANS VOTE FAVOUR OF CHANGG THE LAW TO ALLOW SAME-SEX UPL TO MARRY- OM AFPSHARE8 M READPUBLISHED 15 NOVEMBER 2017 10:04AMUPDATED 15 NOVEMBER 2017 7:46PMBY JAM ELTON-PYMTAGSATRALIASHARE THIS WH FAY AND IENDSCOPY LKSHAREREMEND FOR YOU
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GAY MARRIAGE ATRALIA UNLIKELY FOR YEARS AFTER PUBLIC VOTE PLAN REJECTED

They say a public vote is unnecsary, too stly and would trigger a divisive public bate which uld trmatize young gay and lbian Atralians. All of this leav Atralia’s gay muny hangg.

However, one of Atralia’s most proment gay policians supports rejectg the plebisce and is prepared to wa for gay marriage Atralia.

So do, both major party lears Atralia – Labor lear Bill Shorten and Mallm Turnbull, who is the first Atralian Prime Mister to support gay marriage while power.

EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE PLEBISCE

John Warhurst, a profsor at Atralian Natnal Universy’s School of Polics, says nservativ believe a public vote is their bt hope to feat – or at least stall – gay marriage the untry. High-profile celebri like sger Kylie Mogue and Margot Robbie are mpaigng favor of gay marriage. Atralian Marriage Equaly director Tiernan Brady said the rejectn of the plebisce was the will of the majory of gay and lbian Atralians.

”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. ”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 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

"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. 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.

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

He said a gay baker or a Jewish baker should be allowed to refe to service an Islamic weddg too, and vice versa. "Timele of same-sex rights Atralia1961: Atralia troduc s first Marriage Act, but do not clu a formal fn of marriage1975: South Atralia be the first state to crimalise male homosexualy1976-1997: Other stat and terrori crimalise male homosexualy2004: The Marriage Act is amend to add the fn that "marriage means the unn of a man and a woman to the excln of all others"2009: De facto upl are given siar rights to those who are married2013: Feral Labor ernment mak unlawful to discrimate agast LGBTIQ (lbian, gay, bi, trans, tersex, queer) people2015: Conservative aln ernment ms to a natnal plebisce proposal on same-sex marriageNovember 2016: Upper hoe Senate rebuffs the ernment's plans for a natnal plebisce on gay unnsAugt 2017: Senate knocks backs natnal plebisce proposal aga, ernment ph ahead wh a natnal voluntary postal voteSeptember 2017: Ballot papers for the postal vote are sent outNovember 15, 2017: Some 61. Kev Maxen is gay.

SAME-SEX MARRIAGE BILL TRODUCED TO SENATE ON DAY OF HISTORIC Y VOTETHE ATRALIAN PEOPLE HAVE VOTED FAVOUR OF LEGALISG SAME-SEX MARRIAGE THE ERNMENT'S VOLUNTARY POSTAL SURVEY, TRIGGERG MALLM TURNBULL'S PROMISE TO CHANGE THE MARRIAGE ACT.KEY POTS:Y WS: 61 PER CENT OF ATRALIANS VOTE TO LEGALISE SAME-SEX MARRIAGEMALLM TURNBULL WANTS TO MAKE LEGAL BY CHRISTMAS DEAN SMH'S BILL TO CHANGE THE MARRIAGE ACT TRODUCED SENATECOALN NSERVATIV WANT STRONGER RELIG EXEMPTNSTHE SENATE WILL ON THURSDAY BATE THE WORDG OF A BILL TO CHANGE THE MARRIAGE ACT, AFTER ATRALIANS VOTED CISIVELY FAVOUR OF ALLOWG SAME-SEX UPL TO MARRY A LANDMARK NATNAL SURVEY. THE Y VOTE TRIUMPHED THE ATRALIAN MARRIAGE LAW POSTAL SURVEY, ACUNTG FOR 61.6 PER CENT OF THE VOTE, WHILE 38.4 PER CENT OF RPONNTS VOTED NO. A PRIVATE MEMBER'S BILL, -SPONSORED BY BOTH MAJOR PARTI, WAS TRODUCED THE SENATE LATE ON WEDNDAY AFTERNOON, KICKG OFF A LEGISLATIVE PROCS THAT ULD SEE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE LEGALISED BY CHRISTMAS. THE RULTS OF THE ATRALIAN MARRIAGE LAW POSTAL SURVEY WERE ANNOUNCED ON WEDNDAY MORNG BY THE HEAD OF THE ATRALIAN BURE OF STATISTICS DAVID KALISCH, ENDG A DIVISIVE THREE-MONTH MPAIGN. RELATED READINGMARRIAGE EQUALY'S NEXT HURDLE: THE LEGAL STOH OVER HUMAN RIGHTS EXPLAEDCELEBRATNS WERE APLENTY OUTSI THE STATE LIBRARY OF VICTORIA MELBOURNE ON WEDNDAY. SOURCE: GETTY IMAGDPE SOME EARLY CRICISMS THAT THE E OF THE POSTAL SYSTEM WOULD MAKE THE SURVEY ACCSIBLE, AN OVERWHELMG 79.5 PER CENT OF ATRALIAN VOTERS DID PARTICIPATE, WHAT THE CHIEF STATISTICIAN LLED AN "OUTSTANDG" TURNOUT.WOMEN RPOND GREATER NUMBERS THAN MEN AT 81.6 PER CENT AND 77.3 PER CENT RPECTIVELY. YOUNG VOTERS ALSO TURNED OUT STRONG NUMBERS WH 78 PER CENT OF THOSE AGED 18-19 AND 72 PER CENT OF THOSE AGED 20-24 MAKG TO A POST OFFICE WH THEIR PLETED FORMS.AT THE OTHER END OF THE SPECTM, 80 PER CENT OF ATRALIANS OLR THAN 85 VOTED. SAME-SEX MARRIAGE WILL NOW ALMOST CERTALY BE LEGALISED ATRALIA THROUGH A CHANGE TO THE MARRIAGE ACT.RELATED READINGATRALIAN MARRIAGE LAW EXPLAED: WHAT BENEFS DO MARRIED UPL HAVE THAT FACTO UPL DON'T? SOURCE: ABSA SAME-SEX MARRIAGE SUPPORTER WAV A WHE FLAG WH 'OUR LOVE IS REAL' WRTEN ON SYDNEY ON THE DAY OF THE ANNOUNCEMENT. SOURCE: GETTY IMAGTURNBULL PLEDG TO CHANGE THE LAW BY CHRISTMASPRIME MISTER MALLM TURNBULL SAID HE WAS MTED TO CHANGG THE LAW BY CHRISTMAS."NOW IS UP TO HERE THE PARLIAMENT OF ATRALIA TO GET ON WH , TO GET ON WH THE JOB THE ATRALIAN PEOPLE HAVE TASKED TO DO AND GET THIS DONE THIS YEAR BEFORE CHRISTMAS," MR TURNBULL SAID, SPEAKG IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWG THE ABS ANNOUNCEMENT."THE ATRALIAN PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN THEIR LNS AND THEY HAVE VOTED OVERWHELMGLY Y FOR MARRIAGE EQUALY. THEY VOTED Y FOR FAIRNS, THEY VOTED Y FOR MMENT, THEY VOTED Y FOR LOVE," MR TURNBULL SAID.MR TURNBULL HAS PREVLY SAID HE EXPECTED A PRIVATE MEMBER'S BILL TO "SAIL THROUGH PARLIAMENT". WHILE SENATOR DEAN SMH'S BILL HAS ALREADY BEEN TRODUCED TO THE SENATE, THE LAW NNOT BE CHANGED UNTIL THE HOE OF REPRENTATIV RENVEN FOR THE LAST STG FORTNIGHT OF PARLIAMENT, WHICH BEGS ON NOVEMBER 27. LABOR LEAR BILL SHORTEN IS ALSO PHG FOR THE LAW TO BE CHANGED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE."TODAY WE CELEBRATE, TOMORROW WE LEGISLATE!" MR SHORTEN TOLD A GATHERED CROWD.DAVID BRYANT AND NICK HIGGS CELEBRATE THE RULT ANNOUNCEMENT ON NOVEMBER 15, 2017 SYDNEY. SOURCE: GETTY IMAGCONSERVATIVE LIBERALS PH FOR STRONGER RELIG EXEMPTNSEXACTLY HOW THE MARRIAGE ACT WILL CHANGE REMAS AN ACTIVE BATE WH THE COALN. CONSERVATIVE LIBERALS ARE PHG FOR STRONGER RELIG PROTECTNS, TO SHIELD DIVIDUALS AND PANI WHO DID NOT WANT TO PARTICIPATE SAME-SEX WEDDGS. TWO LIBERAL SENATORS HAD RELEASED VERY DIFFERENT BILLS - THE MORATE-BACKED DEAN SMH BILL, WHICH WAS TRODUCED TO THE SENATE ON WEDNDAY, AND THE JAM PATERSON BILL FAVOURED BY NSERVATIV.BUT LATE ON WEDNDAY EVENG, SENATOR PATERSON DROPPED HIS PLAN TO TRODUCE A PETG BILL. HE NOW PLANS TO NEGOTIATE AMENDMENTS TO THE SMH BILL STEAD. WHILE THE SMH BILL ALLOWS CHURCH TO REFE TO MARRY SAME-SEX UPL, THE PATERSON BILL WOULD HAVE ALLOWED ANYONE WH A RELIG OR MORAL OBJECTN TO REFE TO PARTICIPATE THE PROCS – CLUDG FLORISTS, BAKERS AND MICIANS.IT WOULD ALSO PROTECT ANYONE VOICG OR ACTG ON A BELIEF THAT MARRIAGE SHOULD ONLY BE BETWEEN A MAN AND A WOMAN OM DISCRIMATN AND VILIFITN LAWS.COALN FOR MARRIAGE'S LYLE SHELTON LIVERS A SPEECH TO THE NO MP ON WEDNDAY. SOURCE: GETTY IMAGMR TURNBULL HAS DITED HIS PREFERENCE FOR THE SMH BILL, WHICH HAS BEEN -SPONSORED BY LABOR AND THE GREENS."THE SMH BILL HAS THE ADVANTAGE OF HAVG BEEN AROUND FOR SOME MONTHS NOW. EVERYONE IS FAIAR WH , HAS A WI GREE OF SUPPORT ACROSS THE CHAMBERS," HE SAID.BUT MR TURNBULL DID NOT LE OUT AMENDMENTS TO THE WORDG."OF URSE THERE'S THE OPPORTUNY TO MOVE AMENDMENTS AND IMPROVE ," HE SAID. SENATOR DEAN SMH HIMSELF SAID CHANG ULD BE NSIRED, BUT UTNED AGAST THE PROVISNS THE NSERVATIV' BILL THAT WOULD ALLOW SERVICE PROVIRS TO DISCRIMATE AGAST SAME-SEX UPL WHO WERE PLANNG THEIR WEDDGS. "IF THERE ARE AMENDMENTS, LET'S SEE THEM. BUT LET'S BE VERY CLEAR ABOUT THIS: ATRALIANS DID NOT PARTICIPATE A SURVEY TO HAVE ONE DISCRIMATN PLANK REMOVED, TO HAVE OTHER PLANKS OF DISCRIMATN PILED UPON THEM," SENATOR SMH SAID. ATTORNEY-GENERAL GEE BRANDIS SAID HE WOULD SUPPORT AN AMENMENT THAT ALLOWED CIVIL CELEBRANTS - AS WELL AS RELIG CELEBRANTS - TO REFE TO MARRY SAME-SEX UPL. SOURCE: ABS SOURCE: ABS'DEMOCRACY HASN'T GONE OUR WAY'LYLE SHELTON, THE HEAD OF THE ATRALIAN CHRISTIAN LOBBY AND SPOKMAN FOR THE NO MPAIGN, SAID THE RULT WAS "CISIVE" AND NGRATULATED THE OPPOSG MPAIGN ON THEIR VICTORY."DEMOCRACY HASN'T GONE OUR WAY TODAY BUT I THANK GOD THAT WE LIVE  A EE AND OPEN AND MOCRATIC SOCIETY AND I TST THOSE PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN ENERGISED BY THIS MPAIGN WILL NTUE TO PARTICIPATE OUR MOCRACY," HE SAID.HE CREDED THE VICTORY TO A LONG-NNG AND VIGORO Y MPAIGN."AS EVERYONE WILL KNOW, THEY HAVE BEEN MPAIGNG FOR AT LEAST A ," MR SHELTON SAID. "THIS IS A MOCRACY. THEY HAVE BEEN RELENTLS THIS AND THEY HAVE SEEN THE U OF THEIR RELENTLSNS."BUT HE SAID THE NO MPAIGN'S EFFORTS WOULD NOW REFOC "ON THE PARLIAMENTARY PROCS".MR SHELTON SCRIBED THE RELIG PROTECTNS THE NOW-ABANDONED PATERSON BILL AS THE "BARE MIMUM".LIBERAL MP CRAIG KELLY, WHO SUPPORTED THE NO VOTE, SAID HE WOULD VOTE FOR SAME-SEX MARRIAGE THE PARLIAMENT BEE A 58 PER CENT MAJORY HIS ELECTORATE OF HUGH VOTED Y. FELLOW LIBERAL MP KEV ANDREWS, WHO SUPPORTED THE NO MPAIGN, SAID BAKERS SHOULD BE GIVEN THE RIGHT TO REFE TO SERVICE SAME-SEX WEDDGS. HE SAID A GAY BAKER OR A JEWISH BAKER SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO REFE TO SERVICE AN ISLAMIC WEDDG TOO, AND VICE VERSA. "IT HAS TO BE NSISTENT," HE SAID.STRONG NO VOTE WTERN SYDNEY SEATS HELD BY LABORAROUND THE UNTRY, 133 ELECTORAT VOTED Y WHILE 17 VOTED NO.BUT SOME OF THE STRONGT NO RULTS WERE LABOR SEATS, SPE THE PARTY'S OFFICIAL ELECTN PROMISE TO SUPPORT SAME-SEX MARRIAGE.TEN OF THE NO-VOTG SEATS WERE LOTED WT AND SOUTH-WT SYDNEY.SUPPORT FOR SAME-SEX MARRIAGE WAS LOWT THE LABOR MP JASON CLARE'S SEAT OF BLAXLAND, WHERE JT 26 PER CENT OF VOTERS WANTED THE LAW TO CHANGE.IN ADJACENT WATSON, ALSO SYDNEY'S SOUTH-WT, ONLY 30 PER CENT VOTED Y.WATSON'S LOL MP IS LABOR'S TONY BURKE, WHO SAID HE WOULD STILL BE SUPPORTG THE Y POSN THE PARLIAMENT."I WENT TO THE LAST ELECTN WH A MMENT TO VOTE Y. THAT DON'T CHANGE," MR BURKE SAID."MY MUNY KNOWS THAT IF THEY ARE TREATED WH PREJUDICE, VILIFIED OR MARGALISED ANY WAY I WILL STAND UP FOR THEM REGARDLS OF POLLS. THE SAME APPLI TO THIS ISSUE."TIMELE OF SAME-SEX RIGHTS ATRALIA1961: ATRALIA TRODUC S FIRST MARRIAGE ACT, BUT DO NOT CLU A FORMAL FN OF MARRIAGE1975: SOUTH ATRALIA BE THE FIRST STATE TO CRIMALISE MALE HOMOSEXUALY1976-1997: OTHER STAT AND TERRORI CRIMALISE MALE HOMOSEXUALY2004: THE MARRIAGE ACT IS AMEND TO ADD THE FN THAT "MARRIAGE MEANS THE UNN OF A MAN AND A WOMAN TO THE EXCLN OF ALL OTHERS"2009: DE FACTO UPL ARE GIVEN SIAR RIGHTS TO THOSE WHO ARE MARRIED2013: FERAL LABOR ERNMENT MAK UNLAWFUL TO DISCRIMATE AGAST LGBTIQ (LBIAN, GAY, BI, TRANS, TERSEX, QUEER) PEOPLE2015: CONSERVATIVE ALN ERNMENT MS TO A NATNAL PLEBISCE PROPOSAL ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGENOVEMBER 2016: UPPER HOE SENATE REBUFFS THE ERNMENT'S PLANS FOR A NATNAL PLEBISCE ON GAY UNNSAUGT 2017: SENATE KNOCKS BACKS NATNAL PLEBISCE PROPOSAL AGA, ERNMENT PH AHEAD WH A NATNAL VOLUNTARY POSTAL VOTESEPTEMBER 2017: BALLOT PAPERS FOR THE POSTAL VOTE ARE SENT OUTNOVEMBER 15, 2017: SOME 61.6 PERCENT OF ELIGIBLE ATRALIANS VOTE FAVOUR OF CHANGG THE LAW TO ALLOW SAME-SEX UPL TO MARRY- OM AFPSHARE8 M READPUBLISHED 15 NOVEMBER 2017 10:04AMUPDATED 15 NOVEMBER 2017 7:46PMBY JAM ELTON-PYMTAGSATRALIASHARE THIS WH FAY AND IENDSCOPY LKSHAREREMEND FOR YOU

No NFL ach had ever publicly e out as gay, so Maxen, an assistant strength and ndng ach for the Jacksonville Jaguars, kept quiet about his sexual orientatn.And that ma him angry — at himself.“It was an anger and hatred of myself bee I put myself a life where I was livg by other people’s l and not by my own,” Maxen told Outsports.

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Men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. Former San Francis 49ers offensive assistant Katie Sowers beme the NFL’s first ach to e out as gay 2017.

First-year Sparks ach Curt Miller, who ached the Connecticut Sun for seven years before that, has been out for s.Acrdg to the article, Maxen ma his cisn to do so last year and reached out for advice om Carl Nassib, who 2021 beme the NFL’s first out gay active player as a member of the Las Vegas Rairs.It was Nassib who put Maxen ntact wh Outsports.

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A natnal poll asked lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer or qutng people age 13 to 24, “How have recent bat about state laws rtrictg the rights of LGBTQ young people impacted your mental health? Malaysia’s ernment has cut short a mic ftival after the lead sger of Brish band The 1975 slammed the untry’s anti-gay laws and kissed a male bandmate durg their performance.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s ernment Saturday cut short a mic ftival after the lead sger of Brish band The 1975 slammed the untry’s anti-gay laws and kissed a male bandmate durg their performance. ” Healey ed profany his speech cricizg the ernment’s stance agast homosexualy, before kissg bass player Ross MacDonald. Homosexualy is a crime the untry that is punishable by up to 20 years prison and agency charge of approvg performanc by foreign artists said was disappoted wh the band’s nduct, llg “an sult and disrpectg the laws of the untry.

” It said the group will be blacklisted om performg wasn’t the first time that Healy ed the stage to fend lbian and gay rights.

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In 2019, he kissed a male fan durg a ncert the Uned Arab Emirat, which also outlaws homosexual acts, acrdg to media reports. 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.