- Target:
- Malcolm Turnball
- Region:
- Australia
Although the Australian Capital Territory did succeed in passing a same-sex marriage law in 2013, this was struck down by the High Court on the basis that federal laws prohibiting same-sex marriage would prevail over any inconsistent state or territory laws that allowed same-sex marriage.As of 2016, there have been 18 unsuccessful attempts in the Federal Parliament to legalise same-sex marriage nationwide.The current Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, supports same-sex marriage. The Turnbull Government went to the 2016 federal election with a policy to put the issue of same-sex marriage to a plebiscite, and was narrowly re-elected, though the legislation to establish the plebiscite was rejected by the Australian Senate in November 2016. It was discovered within 2017 a loophole exists for same-sex couples who get married overseas where it is legal, can not divorce within Australia when they come back due to the ban on same-sex marriage
We the undersigned,call on you to commit to marriage equality immediatelty to ensure that every one in our country have all the same rights no matter if they are hextrosexual or homosexual they are all human beings. this descions can affect families who are homosexual and they want to get married and feel like they deserve rights to they work and pay taxes so they should get the right to whoever they want to marry.
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The Support Marriage Equality petition to Malcolm Turnball was written by makayla and is in the category Human Rights at GoPetition.