News: Australian MP introduces civil partnership bill
Independent Australian MP Bob Such has introduced a private members’ bill proposing a universal right to civil partnerships.
The bill, tabled at the state parliament of South Australia in Adelaide, would be open to both homosexual couples and to heterosexual couples seeking an alternative to conventional marriage.
Both partners would need to be resident in South Australia.
The MP said:
“Members shouldn’t conclude that because I’m introducing this that I am necessarily opposed to same-sex marriage, I am not. This arrangement is for two adult persons who are in a relationship as a couple … who may, irrespective of their gender, register their relationship as a civil partnership. It will apply to heterosexual couples as well.”
Mr Such proposed the measure after he was contacted by a same sex couple in his constituency.
Photo of the Parliament of South Australia by Rocky88 via Wikipedia under a Creative Commons licence
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DT on October 30, 2012 at 9:10 pm
Very interesting. I think this will, in time, happen here too.
Not yet, but as sexual orientation becomes less of a taboo, and homosexuality ceases to be such a head-turner, then I think we’ll see greater and greater changes in society.
Of course, this particular piece is not so much about gay people as all people having the same rights – regardless of their sexual orientation. I think that’s how it should be; access to civil partnerships and marriage for all couples, regardless of whether they’re a gay or straight couple.