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Same-sex marriage could be 100% legal in Australia by next week
Australia’s same-sex marriage Bill has just cleared its first major hurdle and was today passed in the Federal Senate.
It is the first marriage equality Bill to ever pass any of the Houses in the Australian Parliament.
It will now go in to the House of Representatives for debate next week, but advocates believe the legislation should pass without too much hassle.
Australia recently held a national non-binding postal survey that asked eligible voters if they agreed that the ‘law should be changed to allow same-sex couples to marry’.
It was revealed on 15 November that 61.6% of Australians agreed that marriage equality should be legalized.
On the same day, Liberal Party Senator Dean Smith introduced his Consensus Marriage Equality Bill into the Senate. Smith’s Bill had cross-party support from all sides of the Senate chamber.
In the past two weeks the Senate has debated the Bill.
Same-sex marriage could be 100% legal in Australia by next week
BREAKING: Same-sex marriage law passes first major hurdle in Australia
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Australia has voted 'yes' to marriage equality
29 November 2017
Shannon Power
Australia’s same-sex marriage Bill has just cleared its first major hurdle and was today passed in the Federal Senate.
It is the first marriage equality Bill to ever pass any of the Houses in the Australian Parliament.
It will now go in to the House of Representatives for debate next week, but advocates believe the legislation should pass without too much hassle.
Australia recently held a national non-binding postal survey that asked eligible voters if they agreed that the ‘law should be changed to allow same-sex couples to marry’.
It was revealed on 15 November that 61.6% of Australians agreed that marriage equality should be legalized.
On the same day, Liberal Party Senator Dean Smith introduced his Consensus Marriage Equality Bill into the Senate. Smith’s Bill had cross-party support from all sides of the Senate chamber.
In the past two weeks the Senate has debated the Bill.
On Tuesday night and Wednesday morning the Senate debated 13 potential amendments to the Bill.
Some of the amendments included; guaranteeing religious freedoms and allowing civil celebrants to decline performing same-sex marriages based on a ‘conscientious objection’. Another amendment was to allow service providers such as bakers and florists to deny service to gay couples getting married.
But most of the amendments were convincingly voted down in the Senate, including all the amendments put forward by the Australian Greens party.
Conservative Tasmanian Senator Eric Abetz stood up to speak ahead of the vote and spoke longer than any other Senator in the chamber, including leaders of the major parties.
He said he would vote ‘no’ to the Bill ‘in solidarity with those over 100,000 Tasmanians who voted no’. This was despite the fact the majority – 63.6% – of Tasmanians voted in favour of same-sex marriage.
It’s a yes
But shortly after 1.30pm in the national capital, Canberra, the Senate voted in favour of passing the same-sex marriage Bill. It was voted 42 in favour, with 12 senators voting against it.
Australia’s same-sex marriage Bill has just cleared its first major hurdle and was today passed in the Federal Senate.
It is the first marriage equality Bill to ever pass any of the Houses in the Australian Parliament.
It will now go in to the House of Representatives for debate next week, but advocates believe the legislation should pass without too much hassle.
Australia recently held a national non-binding postal survey that asked eligible voters if they agreed that the ‘law should be changed to allow same-sex couples to marry’.
It was revealed on 15 November that 61.6% of Australians agreed that marriage equality should be legalized.
On the same day, Liberal Party Senator Dean Smith introduced his Consensus Marriage Equality Bill into the Senate. Smith’s Bill had cross-party support from all sides of the Senate chamber.
In the past two weeks the Senate has debated the Bill.
Same-sex marriage could be 100% legal in Australia by next week
BREAKING: Same-sex marriage law passes first major hurdle in Australia
Facebook via Australian Marriage Equality
Australia has voted 'yes' to marriage equality
29 November 2017
Shannon Power
Australia’s same-sex marriage Bill has just cleared its first major hurdle and was today passed in the Federal Senate.
It is the first marriage equality Bill to ever pass any of the Houses in the Australian Parliament.
It will now go in to the House of Representatives for debate next week, but advocates believe the legislation should pass without too much hassle.
Australia recently held a national non-binding postal survey that asked eligible voters if they agreed that the ‘law should be changed to allow same-sex couples to marry’.
It was revealed on 15 November that 61.6% of Australians agreed that marriage equality should be legalized.
On the same day, Liberal Party Senator Dean Smith introduced his Consensus Marriage Equality Bill into the Senate. Smith’s Bill had cross-party support from all sides of the Senate chamber.
In the past two weeks the Senate has debated the Bill.
On Tuesday night and Wednesday morning the Senate debated 13 potential amendments to the Bill.
Some of the amendments included; guaranteeing religious freedoms and allowing civil celebrants to decline performing same-sex marriages based on a ‘conscientious objection’. Another amendment was to allow service providers such as bakers and florists to deny service to gay couples getting married.
But most of the amendments were convincingly voted down in the Senate, including all the amendments put forward by the Australian Greens party.
Conservative Tasmanian Senator Eric Abetz stood up to speak ahead of the vote and spoke longer than any other Senator in the chamber, including leaders of the major parties.
He said he would vote ‘no’ to the Bill ‘in solidarity with those over 100,000 Tasmanians who voted no’. This was despite the fact the majority – 63.6% – of Tasmanians voted in favour of same-sex marriage.
It’s a yes
But shortly after 1.30pm in the national capital, Canberra, the Senate voted in favour of passing the same-sex marriage Bill. It was voted 42 in favour, with 12 senators voting against it.
