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Equal marriage: Referendum tactic must be considered
In November, Australians voted to endorse same-sex marriage by 61.6%, putting the reluctant government under huge pressure to make it legal. As we go to press, the first same-sex marriages are now taking place. Northern Ireland is becoming increasingly isolated in denying this right, lagging behind Britain and the South.
Australia: Massive YES vote to marriage equality
There was a huge turnout with 79.5% of eligible participants returning their surveys. Of those, 61.6% voted ‘yes’, in favour of marriage equality! That is 7,817,247 people in support of equal rights!
Utopia – a powerful film about the subjugation of Aboriginal First Australians
An interview with the maker of Utopia, John Pilger Niall Mulholland, from The Socialist (weekly newspaper of the Socialist Party, England…