Recently, Australia`s ruling and opposition parties are quarrelling in the federal parliament over gay marriage. And finally, Australia`s prime minister officially announced that a referendum on gay marriage will be launched!
Sydney Morning Herald: Australian Prime Minister announces fees and dates for a referendum on gay marriage
The Daily Mail: a referendum on legalizing gay marriage is planned for Nov. 25!
The federal government has put in place two plans:
Plan 1:
112 million Australian dollars in the November 25 referendum!
Plan II:
Ballot sheets have been mailed to Australian voters since Sept. 12.
The voting deadline is November 7.
The final results were announced on November 15th.
According to the report, the Australian Prime Minister announced:
A referendum on gay marriage will be held on Nov. 25.
If a referendum bill fails to pass in the Senate, the federal government will start in September and collect voters` postal votes in eight weeks!
The vote on legalization of gay marriage will be counted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, (ABS)!
If most Australians vote "yes" to the legalization of gay marriage, then gay marriage will be officially legalized before Christmas!
According to the report, the proposal for a referendum on legalization of gay marriage will be discussed in the federal Senate this week.
Just two days before Australia`s prime minister announced the policy, hundreds of people from Sydney and Melbourne took part in a rally.
Protesters in front of Sydney City Hall held slogans like "Love only about the Heart," We didn`t vote for your Marriage, "and then marched along Oxford Street, shouting," homosexuality, heterosexuality, black or white, marriage is a civil right. "
Australia, a country that has been arguing for years to legalise same-sex marriage, has yet to make a decision.
Prior to last year`s federal election, Australian Prime Minister Turnbull promised to hold a legal referendum on same-sex marriage by the end of 2016 if he won the election.
On November 8, however, the Australian government rejected a referendum scheduled to be held in February to decide whether to legalize same-sex marriage.
Former Prime Minister John Howard (1996-2007) did not express support for changing the legal recognition of homosexuals.
Opposition to same-sex marriage was the position of the Labour government during the Australian Labour Party`s administration (2007 / 2013), until 2013.
On October 22, 2013, the Parliament of the Australian Capital District passed the Marriage Equality Act (the Marriage Equality Act), formally legalizing same-sex marriage and becoming Australia`s first region to recognize same-sex marriage.
Albert (Tony Abbott), then Australia`s prime minister, said he would seek to repeal the same-sex marriage bill with legal power, but after Australia passed a new law in 2011, Abbott`s legal power to annul the same-sex marriage act in the capital may face considerable difficulties and risks.
On December 12, 2013, Australia`s High Court ruled that the legality of same-sex marriage should be left to Congress and that local governments had no right to overturn the Australian Capital District Marriage Equality Act and annul 27 married same-sex couples.
Before that, Tasmania had twice initiated same-sex marriage proposals, but were eventually blocked without success. The House of Representatives also voted on the bill, but did not pass it.
Gay marriage referendum, detonate federal Congress!
Just as Australia`s prime minister announced the policy, it caused an uproar in the federal parliament.
Federal Cabinet Secretary Mathias Cormann said the way to vote by mail was not only legal, but not illegal, nor unconstitutional, for gay marriage.
Although polls show that most Australians support gay marriage. Finding a policy agreement on the issue is a test of the authority of the Turnbull government, which has delayed the centre-left and the opposition Labour Party for months in opinion polls.
The conservative Liberal Party leader promised in last July`s elections that voters should decide whether Australia should vote to recognize same-sex marriage.
But because of the federal Senate constraints, resulting in a referendum has been difficult.
More than half of Australians support gay marriage
Attitudes to same-sex marriage have changed "profoundly" in Australia, and most now support legalizing same-sex marriage, according to a new survey.
The annual Australian Family, income and Labour Dynamics (HILDA) survey conducted by the Australian Government on behalf of the University of Melbourne found that 67% of female respondents and 59% of men wanted same-sex marriage to be legalized in Australia.
In a 2005 survey of the same 10, 7000 respondents, only 43 percent of women and 32 percent of men supported gay marriage.
The report`s author, Roger Wilkins, notes that Australians` perceptions of same-sex marriage have changed "very profoundly." He told the Australian broadcaster (ABC): that "it is quite obvious that social sentiment has become more supportive of equal rights in marriage."
The results of the survey are in line with recent polls.
Nearly 60 percent of Western Australians said they would vote for the same-sex marriage referendum today, 32 percent against it and 9 percent hesitant, according to a Galaxy poll released late last month.
Homosexuality was a crime in Australia.
In Australia, as in the rest of the world, homosexuality has long been considered a criminal act.
Prior to this, "gay" sex in Western Australia will be sentenced to 14 years in prison and flogging;
In Tasmania, (TAS), would be sentenced to 21 years in prison.
These harsh penalties did not begin to be abolished until 1972!
In 1972, the Australian capital, (ACT), and the Northern Territory, (NT), took the lead in removing homosexuality charges, followed by other regions, as late as Tasmania (1997).
Although homosexuality is gradually "decriminated", homosexuals have for a long time had to endure more stringent "licensing age" (age of consent) restrictions.
(NSW) and Northern Territory, New South Wales, with a statutory "licensing age" of 16, but 18 for homosexuals;
The most extreme is in Western Australia, where homosexuals have a "licensing age" of up to 21. The discriminatory "age of consent" has since been phased out. The first was the Northern Territory (2002), followed by New South Wales and Western Australia (2003). Today, with the exception of Queensland (QLD) and Tasmania, "consent age" equality has been achieved across Australia.
In this political game about the legalization of same-sex marriage and the high pressure of "politically correct", do not know whether the road to legalize gay marriage will be long?
And the legalization of gay marriage, for Australia`s future, is it a blessing or a hidden danger?
