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Sydney Morning Herald
| 8 months ago
Party Senator Cory Bernardi has lost another parliamentary role following comments he made to the Senate last week linking gay marriage to bestiality and polyamory. Senator Bernadi had been deputy manager of Opposition business in the Senate but was...
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The Age
| 8 months ago
Premier Ted Baillieu refusing to allow Liberal MPs a conscience vote on the issue. The decision puts Mr Baillieu at odds with his New South Wales Liberal counterpart, Barry O'Farrell, who last week confirmed he would grant a free vote on a gay...
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The New Zealand Herald
| 8 months ago
Australia's Treasurer, Wayne Swan, has leaped into America's presidential election, attacking Republican "cranks and crazies" for threatening global economic recovery. Swan also lectured European leaders on the path they should follow, citing Labor's...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 8 months ago
The controversial Liberal politician had been due to address the European Young Conservative Freedom Summit this weekend at Oxford University's St Hugh's College. However he opted not to attend the conference following his controversial comments...
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The Age
| 8 months ago
Cory Bernardi for ''ill discipline'' this week, Tony Abbott has a problem over the opposition's policy on wheat and has also been embarrassed by comments from indigenous Liberal backbencher Ken Wyatt. The West Australian Liberal state council today...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 8 months ago
When Parliament resumed in August after the winter recess, the opposition kept up the attack, but its enthusiasm seemed to wane...Abbott's first question to Gillard was about mining and he didn't trouble her about the C word all day...After her...
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The Daily Telegraph
| 8 months ago
Minister Julia Gillard is standing by her treasurer's attack on the "cranks and crazies" of the US Tea Party movement, saying it is "appropriate" for him to point out the risks to the global economy. But the federal opposition says rather than...
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The Courier-Mail
| 8 months ago
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says he and his lesbian sister "respectfully disagree" on gay marriage. Mr Abbott's sister Christine Forster is in a same-sex relationship and is a strong supporter of gay marriage. The opposition leader voted against...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 8 months ago
It encompasses progressives who would be comfortable in the left of the ALP, to ultra-conservatives with strongly held religious views who would not be out of place in One Nation. But Cory Bernardi found the limits of the Liberal Party's tolerance...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 8 months ago
The fact that Cory is no longer a member of the shadow frontbench demonstrates that he did the wrong thing in every sense,'' Mr Abbott said. The Opposition Leader later did not rule out a return to the frontbench for Senator Bernardi. Senator...
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Adelaide Now
| 8 months ago
State Parliament after the defeat this week of national plans to legalise same-sex marriage. Independent MP Bob Such will introduce civil partnership legislation to State Parliament later this year. Dr Such said he was urged to do so by gay rights...
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The Age
| 8 months ago
Andrew Meares THE British Conservative Party has strongly condemned dumped Senator Cory Bernardi for suggesting gay marriage could be a slippery slope towards condoning bestiality. As Senator Bernardi, forced by Opposition Leader Tony Abbott to quit...
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The Age
| 8 months ago
Senior Liberal Senator Eric Abetz said neither of the bills was ever going to pass. "Overwhelmingly the Australian people saw this debate as a distraction to the real issues facing our nation," he said in a statement. During the vote on Thursday,...
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Out In Perth News
| 8 months ago
For the second day in a row a bill to support marriage equality has been defeated in the Australian federal parliament. The bill introduced in the senate by Senator's Pratt, Crossin, Brown and Marshall was voted down 41 votes to 26. Western...
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The Courier-Mail
| 8 months ago
THE defeat in the Senate of a bill to legalise gay marriage settles the matter at least for the life of the current federal parliament, Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says. The Senate on Thursday voted 41 to 26 against the private members bill...
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The Australian
| 8 months ago
I've had some lively, and at times heartfelt, discussions with my sister Chris on this subject,'' he said. Mr Abbott also said while he was aware of chief opposition whip Warren Entsch's plan to put up a civil partnerships bill, it wasn't the right...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 8 months ago
The Senate has joined the House of Representatives in voting down legislation aimed at allowing same-sex couples to marry. The final vote on the bill introduced by Labor senators was 26 in favour and 41 against. Labor senator Penny Wong, who is...
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The Age
| 8 months ago
Liberal Senator Sue Boyce, who earlier today spoke in favour of the bill, was absent from the chamber, informally paired with Labor Senator and same sex marriage supporter Joe Ludwig. While Labor Senators had a free vote on the issue, coalition...
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The Courier-Mail
| 8 months ago
THE federal government agrees some defence force cadet units will be disbanded but says it's not because of department spending cuts. Parliamentary secretary for defence Senator David Feeney on Thursday said up to six Australian Navy Cadet units may...
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The Age
| 8 months ago
In our lead document in this country there are elements of race that need to go," he said. The government instead will ask parliament to pass an Act of Recognition as an interim measure before the end of the year. Federal Labor had agreed to hold a...
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The Age
| 8 months ago
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott was joined by Bali bombing victim Peter Hughes and nurse Clair Marsh at Parliament House's Bali memorial gardens on Thursday to make a fresh call for $75,000 compensation to about 300 Australian victims of terror attacks...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 8 months ago
The Opposition Leader, who plans to attend the memorial service in Bali next month, says he again spoke with the Prime Minister about the idea in recent days. "I don't want to put words into the Prime Minister's mouth, but essentially she said she'd...
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Channel NewsAsia
| 8 months ago
Australia on Thursday shelved plans to hold a referendum on formally recognising the country's Aborigines in the constitution, saying there was not enough public support for the move. Prime Minister Julia Gillard described the vote as a "once in 50-...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 8 months ago
Ms Gillard said in a statement she would attend the opening of the 67th session of the General Assembly during a visit to New York from September 23 to 27. "The United Nations is the world's pre-eminent multilateral body, and Australia, as a founding...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 8 months ago
He also conceded he had spoken to Prime Minister Julia Gillard about the issue and she told him she would have a look at it. The total cost would be about $30 million for the 300 victims, assuming they got the maximum compensation amount of $75,000...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 8 months ago
Paul Harris A Liberal senator has broken ranks to speak in favour of gay marriage, as party colleagues began talks on bringing forward a same-sex civil unions bill. A day after the lower house voted down a Labor private member's bill to allow same-...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 8 months ago
Chief Opposition Whip Warren Entsch says he has dusted off a civil partnerships bill after the Lower House of Parliament yesterday voted against same-sex marriage. A second same-sex marriage bill introduced by Labor backbenchers could go to a vote in...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 8 months ago
Cory Bernardi has flown from one storm of controversy to another, with British news organisations branding the South Australian as "disgraced" ahead of his expected arrival in Oxford this weekend. Senator Bernardi flew out of Australia yesterday...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 8 months ago
Debate on a same-sex marriage bill has resumed in the Senate and is expected to come to a vote on Thursday evening, despite attempts by the Australian Greens to delay an outcome. Senator Boyce is yet to decide whether she will defy coalition policy...
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The Australian
| 8 months ago
London, Cory Bernardi is being disowned by his British political cousins in the Conservative Party. He has been strongly condemned for drawing a line between gay marriage and sex with animals.
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The Age
| 8 months ago
James Brickwood Prime Minister Julia Gillard has strongly condemned the rioters who took part in a violent protest over an anti-Islamist video as ''extremists''. ''What we saw in Sydney on the weekend wasn't multiculturalism but extremism,'' she said...
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The Daily Telegraph
| 8 months ago
Warren Entsch says he has dusted off his draft bill for civil partnerships after the lower house defeated a Labor backbencher's bill to legalise same-sex marriage on Wednesday. The Senate is expected to vote down a similar bill on Thursday. Mr Entsch...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 8 months ago
Senator Bernardi is to attend the European Young Conservative Freedom Summit in Oxford this weekend. Earlier this week, the Liberal senator suggested to parliament that legalising gay marriage could trigger demands for bestiality and polygamy to be...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 8 months ago
Cory Bernardi might cite Peter Singer's questioning of the ''taboo'' against sex with animals to back up his claim; supporters like Nick Minchin might argue his speech had been distorted...Tony Abbott was fortunate that Bernardi defended them on...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 8 months ago
Former Greens leader Bob Brown has lashed out at both sides of politics for their "failed leadership" over the issue of gay marriage. On Wednesday the House of Representatives overwhelmingly voted against legislation that would have allowed same-sex...
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Towleroad
| 8 months ago
Gay rights activists said they would now look to state and territory parliaments to make the change. "Now the federal parliament has effectively brushed the wishes of a majority of Australians aside, the states and territories will take the lead,...
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The Age
| 8 months ago
Moves are under way in at least two states to endorse gay marriage, even though the marriage act is in the federal jurisdiction. But Australian Marriage Equality national convenor, Alex Greenwich, said the 42-vote bloc in the lower house was a...
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Taiwan News
| 8 months ago
Travel & Delicacy Beauty never Ends Ecological Environment Taiwan News, Staff Writer 2012-09-19 02:51 PM Australia n lawmakers overwhelmingly rejected a bill Wednesday that would have legalized gay marriage, and similar legislation looked unlikely to...
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Daily Nation
| 8 months ago
Rating In Summary The House of Representatives voted down the bill to legalise marriage between same sex couples by 98 to 42. Australia's parliament voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to reject gay marriage, after days of heated debate that saw one...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 8 months ago
Just 42 MPs supported the private members bill put forward by Labor backbencher Stephen Jones, while 98 MPs voted against. The vote was held not long after it was announced that Liberal senator Cory Bernardi had resigned as a parliamentary secretary...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 8 months ago
Mr Abbott has described the comments as "ill-disciplined" and has accepted Senator Bernardi's resignation. "They're views I don't share," the Opposition Leader told reporters in Canberra. "They're views that I think many people would find repugnant. "...
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The Age
| 8 months ago
During a Senate debate on Tuesday, Senator Bernardi suggested legalising same-sex marriage could lead to demands to legalise bestiality and polygamy. Mr Abbott on Wednesday said Senator Bernardi had offered his resignation over the "ill-disciplined...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 8 months ago
During a senate debate on Tuesday, Senator Bernardi suggested legalising same-sex marriage could lead to demands to legalise polygamy and bestiality. Mr Turnbull, a former opposition leader, said the senator's comments were "the worst sort of...
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The Daily Telegraph
| 8 months ago
Liberal Joe Hockey has called for a sensitive and measured parliamentary debate on same-sex marriage. Mr Hockey was responding to the comments of colleague Cory Bernardi who suggested legalising gay marriage would lead to demands for bestiality to...
