perspectives on stuff from an angry feminist
Posted in Uncategorized on May 5th, 2008
It’s been a fairly sombre day after yesterday’s revelation that the Civil Partnerships Bill, or at least the most important elements of it, were dead in the water.
We’ve done what we could to get at least some comment out there; for my part, several comments from me are included in this morning’s Age, and I’ve […]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 4th, 2008
Two hours ago, ACT Attorney-General Simon Corbell caved to federal pressure, and announced that the Civil Partnerships Bill would be withdrawn. And so ends two years of hope that we might see, at least one day soon, civil unions in the Australian Capital Territory.
I’m crushed, although I’m not surprised, for the prospect of a federal […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 29th, 2008
I originally had a long post here responding to Rodney Croome’s attacks on me and his attempts at justifying his evangelism of relationship registries where they’re not wanted.
In light of some things that have come to light since, I’m not going to prolong this argument.
I’ll merely say this. Rodney Croome, you are a jerk, and […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 28th, 2008
People who read this blog might have noticed that I’d become a bit worried over the last couple of months about where exactly the Stanhope government was going with the Civil Partnerships Bill - specifically, whether it was ever going to be taken to the floor of the Legislative Assembly. I was relieved last week […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 7th, 2008
It shouldn’t be much of a surprise to those close to any of the state and territory civil unions battle to know that there’s been a fair bit of tension between the mainstream LGBT activists behind the ACT scheme and that have been lobbying for gay marriage, and the little clique surrounding Rodney Croome, who […]
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 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 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, […]