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Stephen Parker and Michelle Grattan discuss the week in politics.
The prime minister is suddenly looking like a throwback to Tony Abbott, health minister, when he was fighting trenchantly against losing ministerial power over the abortion drug RU486.
Tony Abbott’s office took quite a while to respond to Sky News’ Wednesday report that a group of backbenchers from across the parliament planned to bring forward a gay marriage bill.
What are the consequences of defining marriage as a “fundamental liberty”? And what difference will this ruling make to discrimination against gays and lesbians in other areas of life?
Lawyers and law students betting on recent decisions have been spot on predicting outcomes. It isn’t all that hard, when you think about it.
The moderates keep their voices low in the federal parliamentary Liberal party these days, outnumbered by those in the right.
Same-sex marriage is now a legal right. How the justices arrived at this ruling. the critical role of Anthony Kennedy and the potential impact of the dissenters’ decisions.
University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor Stephen Parker and Michelle Grattan discuss the week in politics.
Malcolm Turnbull
Michelle Grattan talks to Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull about the government's new anti-online piracy measures, Zaky Mallah on ABC's Q&A, gay marriage and much more.
Ireland voted Yes to marriage equality in May – can Northern Ireland pick up the baton?
More than two-thirds of voters support legalising gay marriage in a poll that shows Labor again ahead of the Coalition on a two-party basis.
What are the pressures on researchers that could lead to misrepresentation of facts? Do the “guardians need a guard”?
Australia has an apparent conflict between religious freedom and sexual anti-discrimination legislation. It is particularly prominent in three areas: marriage, education, and social service provision.
The sacrament of marriage does not depend on the law, which exists only to regulate the rights and responsibilities arising from the practice. For religious believers, same-sex marriage won’t change their union.
Government policies regulating sexuality play a significant role in shaping citizens’ attitudes about sexual orientation and same-sex relationships.
A central argument made against same-sex marriage is that children born into these marriages will be disadvantaged: they will grow up with inappropriate gender role modelling and be bullied at school.
The legislative reform required to allow same-sex marriage is not complicated. There is relative consensus as to how this can be achieved.
As opposition leader Bill Shorten prepares to introduce an amendment on Monday to the Marriage Act to legalise same-sex marriage, why has Australia lagged so far behind?
It’s more than a touch hilarious how the Liberals are determined to claim eventual ownership of what seems the likely endorsement of same-sex marriage by parliament later this year. If a change is made…
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