perspectives on stuff from an angry feminist
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 10th, 2008
As I posted a few days ago, we’re at a crucial time in the battle to see the Civil Partnerships Bill actually see the light of the day in the Legislative Assembly. With the federal government maintaining an hardline stance against the bill, our only real hope is to convince the territory government to plow […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 4th, 2008
Mr McClelland is in discussions with the ACT Government to remove clauses in its civil partnerships bill that would allow gay couples to hold a public ceremony marking their union.Mr McClelland has told the ACT that the Rudd Government would not allow civil unions, and is pushing for a system of state-based relationship registers.It is […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 7th, 2008
There’s been an unfortunate twist in the ongoing civil unions saga. Federal Attorney-General Robert McClelland has just come out and stated his specific opposition to the ceremonial components of the Civil Partnerships Bill, and reaffirmed his demand that the ACT institute a relationship registry instead. ACT Attorney-General Simon Corbell has, in response, reaffirmed what we […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 2nd, 2008
Today’s Civil Unions rally was more successful than we could have hoped.
ACT Attorney-General Simon Corbell just stood in front of the television cameras and declared the absolute commitment of the ACT government to enacting civil unions with ceremonies in the face of federal pressure. He spoke at length about the government’s desire to see the […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 21st, 2008
I’ve just heard a bit of surprising news: Attorney-General Corbell has said he’s going to address the Civic Square rally in support of the ACT Civil Partnerships Bill on February 2. I was fully expecting that we’d get a “we’d like to, but no” from anyone involved with the Labor Party.
I’ve been quite pessimistic about […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 6th, 2008
We’ve gotten to a point in Australia where we’re starting to fall behind even the United States in terms of giving recognition to gay and lesbian relationships. We’ve had zero progress on civil unions, and now we have the incoming Rudd government promising to introduce a national relationship register scheme that would in all probability, […]