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THIS IS EVERYONE WHO DIDN'T VOTE TO SUPPORT THE BILL


At least 10 Government MPs chose to abstain from Thursday's final conscience vote on same-sex marriage in the House of Representatives... READ MORE

15th December, 2017 2700

'I COULDN'T BELIEVE IT WAS HAPPENING TO US'


Same-sex marriage Liberal MP Andrew Wallace 'shocked' by daughter's gay relationship... READ MORE

11th December, 2017 5078

ABBOTT 'PROUD OF NO CAMPAIGNERS' BUT EXCITED FOR SISTER'S WEDDING


Tony Abbott doesn't claim to be an overnight convert to a supporter of same-sex marriage but he is looking forward to attending his sister Christine's wedding... READ MORE

4th December, 2017 0

'I WAS SOLD INTO MARRIAGE AGED 13'


The current saga over dual nationalities and the desire to pass same-sex marriage legislation has somewhat disguised the government's parliamentary quandary and internal fractures... READ MORE

24th November, 2017 130

MAJORITY OF NO VOTERS FROM WESTERN SYDNEY


Same-sex marriage Majority of No voters from Western Sydney... READ MORE

16th November, 2017 2890

PRIDE AND JUBILATION WORLDWIDE AS AUSTRALIA BACKS SAME-SEX MARRIAGEA


Australia backs same-sex marriage in historic postal survey... READ MORE

15th November, 2017 429

DID THE VOTE TRANSCEND ITS CONTROVERSY?


Australians voted in favour of same-sex marriage, but for many the poll brought out complex emotions... READ MORE

15th November, 2017 62

AUSTRALIANS OVERWHELMINGLY VOTE TO LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE


Australians were asked to vote in the Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey whether the current laws should allow same-sex marriage... READ MORE

15th November, 2017 5721

RAINBOW CELEBRATIONS AS AUSTRALIANS VOTE FOR SAME-SEX MARRIAGE


Catholic Archbishop of Sydney Anthony Fisher said he was deeply disappointed that the likely result will be legislation to further deconstruct marriage and family in Australia ... READ MORE

15th November, 2017 5057

AUSTRALIANS SAY 'YES' TO GAY MARRIAGE, PAVING WAY FOR LAW CHANGE


Gay-rights campaigners seized on the result, with the Marriage Equality campaign group saying Australia should quickly become the 25th nation to legalize same-sex unions... READ MORE

15th November, 2017 1068

THE MOMENT AUSTRALIA SAID YES TO GAY MARRIAGE


Same-sex marriage 'changes attitudes' Jump to media player Anne-Marie Thus from Maastricht got married in the world's first same-sex ceremony in 2001... READ MORE

15th November, 2017 238

LIVE: SOCCEROOS SEEK WORLD CUP TICKET IN DO-OR-DIE HONDURAS CLASH


Topics sport, soccer, soccer-world-cup, socceroos, homebush-bay-2127, sydney-2000, nsw, australia, honduras Live Same-sex marriage supporters celebrate 'vote for acceptance' Dad was disappointed I was gay... READ MORE

15th November, 2017 1019

CHINA URGED TO STOP USING ELECTROSHOCK THERAPY TO "CONVERT" LGBT PEOPLE


Human Rights Watch called on China to take immediate steps to stop medical facilities from offering conversion therapy... READ MORE

15th November, 2017 373

'CRYING IN MY KITCHEN': HOW SOCIAL MEDIA REACTED TO AUSTRALIA'S YES VOTE


Australians have taken to social media following the results of the same-sex marriage postal survey... READ MORE

15th November, 2017 1444

HOW MANY COUNTRIES HAVE LEGALISED IT?


Brazil became the first country to legalise same-sex marriage not through legislation, but with a court ruling... READ MORE

15th November, 2017 947

'THEY VOTED YES FOR LOVE': TURNBULL VOWS TO LEGALISE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE BY CHRISTMAS


The Australian people have voted in favour of legalising same-sex marriage in the government's voluntary postal survey, triggering Malcolm Turnbull's promise to change the Marriage Act... READ MORE

15th November, 2017 29251

'BRACING FOR ANOTHER BREXIT OR TRUMP SHOCK'


At 10 00am AEDT we'll finally find out for sure how Australia feels about same-sex marriage... READ MORE

14th November, 2017 1061

WHEN ARE THE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE SURVEY RESULTS OUT AND WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?


More than 12 million people have returned their same-sex marriage postal survey to the ABS... READ MORE

9th November, 2017 506

JOHN OLIVER SLAMS AUSTRALIA'S 'TOXIC' SAME-SEX MARRIAGE POSTAL SURVEY


British comedian and political commentator John Oliver has slammed the Australian same-sex marriage postal survey on his popular US talk show Last Week Tonight... READ MORE

31st October, 2017 3513

CONTROVERSIAL NO CAMPAIGN AD BANNED ON DAYTIME TV


The ad is the latest in the Coalition for Marriage's campaign to provoke controversy in the lead-up to the postal survey result... READ MORE

23rd October, 2017 3502

ANALYSIS | THERE'S A RISING GLOBAL TIDE OF CRACKDOWNS ON LGBT COMMUNITIES


In countries where homosexuality is taboo and driven underground, such comments may be the first thing a person has heard in public about LGBT people... READ MORE

20th October, 2017 2065

THERESA MAY PLANS TO LET PEOPLE CHANGE GENDER WITHOUT MEDICAL CHECKS


The Gender Recognition Act does not allow trans people to self-identify their gender and forces them to undergo invasive medical tests... READ MORE

19th October, 2017 1841

MORE THAN 60 ARRESTED AS EGYPT CRACKS DOWN ON GAY COMMUNITY


Hussein Malla AP The sweeps have unfolded as international human rights activists have denounced the Egyptian government and urged an end to the arrests... READ MORE

18th October, 2017 3785

TWO-THIRDS OF AUSTRALIANS HAVE VOTED IN SAME-SEX MARRIAGE POSTAL SURVEY


More than two-thirds of Australians have cast their votes in the same-sex marriage postal survey... READ MORE

17th October, 2017 961

Trending News Headlines : Republican Study Committee

HOW AUSTRALIANS THINK ABOUT SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, MAPPED


A quick look at the colouring reveals that, even in most of rural and regional Australia, a majority of voters support same-sex marriage... READ MORE

2nd October, 2017 35312

UK ACCUSED OF DOING CHINA'S BIDDING AFTER POLICE RAID HOME OF TIANANMEN SQUARE SURVIVOR OVER PEACEFUL PROTEST


Dr Jiang, traumatised after witnessing seeing Chinese soldiers shoot fellow unarmed protesters at Tiananmen Square in 1989, was re-arrested in 1995 before fleeing China in 2003... READ MORE

22nd October, 2015 9144

ROW OVER SAME-SEX MARRIAGE PLEBISCITE FUNDING HEATS UP


The federal government is expected to reveal details of its same-sex marriage plebiscite this week as church leaders say they were promised campaign funding... READ MORE

11th September, 2016 5468

VICE PRESIDENT OF BRAZIL EMERGES FROM SHADOWS


In some ways, this leaves the president even more reliant on Mr. Temer, whom Ms. Rousseff named as her chief negotiator with the fractious Congress this year... READ MORE

7th August, 2015 5341

GAY MARRIAGE BANS IN FOUR STATES UPHELD, SUPREME COURT REVIEW LIKELY


Gay marriage bans in four states upheld supreme court review likely... READ MORE

7th November, 2014 5064

4 CARTOONS THAT SUM UP THE ABSURDITY OF SAUDI ARABIA LEADING A UN HUMAN RIGHTS PANEL


Cartoons taunting Saudi Arabia's membership of the United Nations human rights council have gone viral on social media after the kingdom executed 47 people in one day... READ MORE

3rd January, 2016 3618

BP TO PAY A?12BN FOR GULF OIL SPILL


BP has reached an 18.7bn 12bn settlement with the US Department of Justice DoJ following the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill... READ MORE

2nd July, 2015 3207

'LADY SOS': THE WOMAN SAVING SYRIAN REFUGEES AT SEA


Muslims and refugees are being scapegoated and alienated as attacks claimed by ISIL rise, Human Rights Watch says... READ MORE

28th February, 2016 3162

AFTER MERKEL U-TURN, GERMANY APPROVES SAME-SEX MARRIAGE


Germany holds national elections in September, and legalizing same-sex marriage could benefit Merkel and those running for parliament... READ MORE

30th June, 2017 2949

SAME SEX COUPLES CAN OFFICIALLY MARRY IN IRELAND FROM TODAY


The first couples to be affected will be gay couples who married legally abroad - whose unions will now automatically be recognised by the Irish state... READ MORE

16th November, 2015 2703

FOR OBAMA PERSONAL AND PRESIDENTIAL INTERSECT IN KENYA


Two advocacy groups, Haki Africa and Muslims for Human Rights, or Muhuri, were placed on a list of entities suspected of ties to the Shabab... READ MORE

25th July, 2015 2299

GERMANY VOTES TO LEGALIZE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE DESPITE MERKEL'S THUMBS DOWN


German lawmakers have voted to legalize same-sex marriage in a snap vote only days after Chancellor Angela Merkel changed her longstanding position... READ MORE

30th June, 2017 2164

LOOMING CRUCIFIXION SPARKS GLOBAL CALLS TO SPARE LIFE OF YOUNG SAUDI ALI MOHAMMED AL-NIMR


Many Western countries, including the United States and Australia, have diplomatic and trading ties with Saudi Arabia... READ MORE

24th September, 2015 1864

GOVERNMENT URGED TO REVEAL ITS ROLE IN GETTING SAUDI ARABIA A UN HUMAN RIGHTS ROLE


Exclusive UK Government urged to reveal its role in getting Saudi Arabia onto UN Human Rights Council... READ MORE

4th January, 2016 1853

COURT LACKS MORAL AUTHORITY TO REDEFINE MARRIAGE


Rather, this ruling, like the abortion ruling, all but ensures America will not achieve broad social consensus on same-sex marriage... READ MORE

27th June, 2015 1619

OBAMA CALLS ETHIOPIAN GOVERNMENT DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED


The recent election in Ethiopia was anything but a democratic one, said Sarah Margon, the Washington director of Human Rights Watch... READ MORE

28th July, 2015 1551

PALU JOURNAL A CITY TURNS TO FACE INDONESIAS MURDEROUS PAST


Mastura signed a local regulation officially recognizing human rights abuse victims in the city... READ MORE

12th July, 2015 1147

THIS RANT COMPARING IDS AND CHINA WAS TOO MUCH FOR EVEN THE QUESTION TIME AUDIENCE


I just wonder how the Conservative government can scrutinise China for their human rights violations when they are being investigated themselves he said... READ MORE

23rd October, 2015 1059

PUTIN SIGNS LAW ALLOWING RUSSIA TO OVERTURN RULINGS OF INTERNATIONAL RIGHTS COURTS


MOSCOW President Vladimir Putin has signed a law allowing Russia's Constitutional Court to decide whether or not to implement rulings of international human rights courts... READ MORE

15th December, 2015 1030

KENTUCKY CLERK WON'T BLOCK, OR AUTHORIZE, GAY MARRIAGE LICENSES


After the Supreme Court decision, Davis announced an office policy that no marriage licenses would be issued to any couples... READ MORE

15th September, 2015 950

WHY IS IT LEFT TO US NGOS TO EXPOSE AUSTRALIAN MINING'S WRONGDOING IN AFRICA?


The economy of Eritrea has experienced considerable growth in recent years, explains the website for Australian mining company Danakali... READ MORE

27th July, 2015 915

FIVE HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSERS BACKED BY THE U.S. WHOM YOU NEVER HEARD OF


More than 30 were killed, mostly at the hands of Bahraini security forces, and hundreds more were wounded, according to human rights groups... READ MORE

8th September, 2015 909

VOICES FROM BURUNDI SHARE YOUR EXPERIENCES


Ms. Nivyabandi also fled Burundi in 1993, when civil war erupted after soldiers from the country's Tutsi minority assassinated the first president elected from the Hutu majority... READ MORE

20th July, 2015 904

SAUDI ARABIA CARRYING OUT 'UNPRECEDENTED WAVE' OF EXECUTIONS


There's a lot of speculation, says Adam Coogle, who monitors Saudi Arabia's use of the death penalty, for Human Rights Watch... READ MORE

4th December, 2015 887

U.S. BLOCKS SOME ANTI-DRUG FUNDS FOR MEXICO OVER HUMAN RIGHTS CONCERNS


State Department has decided that Mexico failed to reach some human rights goals triggering a cutoff of millions of dollars in aid... READ MORE

18th October, 2015 878

NOT BEING TORTURED ISN'T THE ONLY HUMAN RIGHT WE TAKE FOR GRANTED


A day does not go by without news reports of grave human rights abuses in countries across all regions of the world... READ MORE

10th December, 2014 860

SENIOR UN OFFICIAL CASTIGATES WORLD BANK OVER ITS APPROACH TO HUMAN RIGHTS


For decades, the World Bank has argued that human rights and development are mutually reinforcing... READ MORE

22nd October, 2015 858

AI WEIWEI ACCUSES CAMERON OF SACRIFICING BRITAIN'S VALUES BY PURSUING CHINA'S MONEY


Ai Weiwei accuses David Cameron of sacrificing UK's human rights record for Chinese cash... READ MORE

21st October, 2015 779

SAME-SEX MARRIAGE RULING FACES RELIGIOUS RIGHTS BATTLE IN TEXAS


Supreme Court ruling a new battle for same-sex marriage erupted in Texas where government leaders asserted their citizens religious liberties trumped the individual right to marry... READ MORE

29th June, 2015 595

RUSSELL BRAND DESCRIBES ONE-MINUTE'S SILENCE FOR TUNISIA VICTIMS AS 'ABSOLUTE BULL****'


Russell Brand describes one-minute's silence for Tunisia victims as 'absolute bull '... READ MORE

2nd July, 2015 577


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