Thursday, September 19, 2013

Australia: No mandate for change


TOMORROW in Canberra nine people - eight Labor and one from the Greens - will set themselves up to decide marriage policy affecting the entire nation.

Capitalising on the normal disruption of a change of federal government, the ACT government will introduce a bill for same-sex marriage into the territory's 17-member assembly.

With no residency requirement, the Labor-Greens government is mischievously creating a problem for interstate people who will not be married when they cross back over the border.

The Liberals, sensibly, are not buying into it and will oppose the bill on constitutional grounds. Keep reading

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