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lishesquexRudd refuses to overrule ACT on gay partnership bill
SAME-SEX Australian couples may be able to have their relationship formally recognised as early as next year, after Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said he would not overrule laws permitting civil unions.
But the privilege could be restricted to couples in the Australian Capital Territory.
Mr Rudd said yesterday that he would not override ACT legislation allowing for civil unions because it was a matter for states and territories.
The ACT has already tried twice to introduce civil partnership laws. But the Howard government used its power over Australian territories to veto or threaten to scrap the legislation.
Yesterday, Mr Rudd indicated he would not do the same. "On these matters, state and territories are answerable to their own jurisdictions," he said.
This is despite Labor telling the Christian lobby before the election it "did not support legislation to recognise same-sex marriage or civil unions".
Labor's federal platform is to support a nationally consistent system of relationship registers.
Registers are less controversial than civil unions because they don't involve a ceremony, which Christian groups view as being too close to a wedding.
Relationship registers are already in use in Tasmania and are being introduced in Victoria.
Mr Rudd's comments came despite federal Attorney-General Robert McClelland suggesting this week that he favoured registers. But ACT Attorney-General Simon Corbell told The Age that registers did not go far enough.
He welcomed the Prime Minister's comments and said he would consider changing the legislation to stop people from outside the ACT having a civil union in Canberra, if that was a concern for the Government.
As it stands, the ACT's civil partnerships bill does not require couples to live in the Territory to have a civil union.
From The Age :D
KEVIN IS SO COOL.
SAME-SEX Australian couples may be able to have their relationship formally recognised as early as next year, after Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said he would not overrule laws permitting civil unions.
But the privilege could be restricted to couples in the Australian Capital Territory.
Mr Rudd said yesterday that he would not override ACT legislation allowing for civil unions because it was a matter for states and territories.
The ACT has already tried twice to introduce civil partnership laws. But the Howard government used its power over Australian territories to veto or threaten to scrap the legislation.
Yesterday, Mr Rudd indicated he would not do the same. "On these matters, state and territories are answerable to their own jurisdictions," he said.
This is despite Labor telling the Christian lobby before the election it "did not support legislation to recognise same-sex marriage or civil unions".
Labor's federal platform is to support a nationally consistent system of relationship registers.
Registers are less controversial than civil unions because they don't involve a ceremony, which Christian groups view as being too close to a wedding.
Relationship registers are already in use in Tasmania and are being introduced in Victoria.
Mr Rudd's comments came despite federal Attorney-General Robert McClelland suggesting this week that he favoured registers. But ACT Attorney-General Simon Corbell told The Age that registers did not go far enough.
He welcomed the Prime Minister's comments and said he would consider changing the legislation to stop people from outside the ACT having a civil union in Canberra, if that was a concern for the Government.
As it stands, the ACT's civil partnerships bill does not require couples to live in the Territory to have a civil union.
From The Age :D
KEVIN IS SO COOL.
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Date: 2007-12-07 06:44 am (UTC)Thanks to Rudd, we can say goodbye to the Dark Ages... Kyoto's already been ratified, now this! It's about time...
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Date: 2007-12-08 04:32 am (UTC)Kyoto... civil unions/registers... I look forward to seeing what's next on Labor's Evil Agenda of Liberal Progressive Doom. ZOMG IT FEELS LIKE IT'S CHRISTMAS!
OH WAIT.
IT /IS/ ALMOST CHRISTMAS!
LOLZ
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Date: 2007-12-07 06:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-08 04:37 am (UTC)Kevin Rudd is the new Prime Minister of Australia as of last week. The conservatives and John Howard (former Prime Minister, also known as Bush's Favorite Australian) finally got defeated for the first time in 11 years. :)
So yeah, the new Labor Government is a lot more friendly to gays than the old one was. Well maybe not quite /friendly/. But at least not openly hostile.
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Date: 2007-12-08 05:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-07 07:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-08 04:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-07 04:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-08 04:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-07 06:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-08 04:44 am (UTC)O Canada! Our home and naaative laaaand...
Truuue patriot looove, in all thy sons command!
With gloooowing hearts, we seee thee rise,
The true North strong and free...
lalala
:D
Sucks about your new guy though. When's your next election?
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Date: 2007-12-08 04:53 am (UTC)I feel so honoured you know my nations boring and non-threatening (just like all Canadians) anthem. Rock on!
I think we've had Harper for about 2 years now. It's either 2 or 3 I really don't remember. We went from the choke-hold of the Liberals right to the uptight Conservatives. We need Jack Layton and his NDPs. Gay marriage with no debate. Go Jack!
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Date: 2007-12-09 10:11 pm (UTC)"ooooh we'll let you REGISTER your relationship". Great. Like we register our fucking dogs and cats? how romantic.
and no ceremony? oh, okayz, it's not like we're dreamed about wearing a white dress since we were little girls. nah, fuck that, let's just rock up to an office and sign a piece of paper so you know that i am officially gay.
aarrrrrgh i am all for kevin 07 but I just cant be fucked to think about politics/religion/fucking assholes who have no idea whats it like to be us.
fuck them all.
kill em all.
(ps sorry to be negativez. :( I is tired and sad. and going for surgery on wednesday and a lot scared. *sigh*)
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Date: 2007-12-10 05:15 pm (UTC)*hugs* Email/text me!
I used to be very passionate/angry/rawr about the gay marriage thing but have since become more cynical, I think, about the institution of marriage. All those gender studies subjects in my Arts degree probably didn't help, hehe. Anyway, cynical and tired of fighting to the point where I'm happy to take a civil union instead of "marriage". What's in a name? I am pissed about the no ceremony thing though.
And you can always be negative... that's what LJs are good for :)
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Date: 2007-12-10 09:44 pm (UTC)(ps you soooo didnt read my LJ! haha tis all in there *nods*)
No ceremony is just bullshit... they are cunts. *ahem*
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Date: 2007-12-11 08:50 am (UTC)Good luck with the surgery! At least those pesky teeth will be gone finally. :) Take care! *hugs*