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Evaluate the laws governing same-sex relationships in Australia. (Stats…
Evaluate the laws governing same-sex relationships in Australia.
Marriage Act 1961
A union Solemnised in a foreign Country between a man and another man or a woman and another woman must not be recognised as a marriage in Australia
Marriage means the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others, voluntarily entered into for life.
Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Act 2017
Repeal the section.
Subsection 5(1) (definition of marriage)
Omit “a man and a woman”, substitute “2 people”.
Young V Australia
The author was in a same-sex relationship with a Mr. C for 38 years. Mr. C was a war veteran, for whom the author cared in the last years of his life He died on 20 December 1998, at the age of 73. On 1 March 1999, the author applied for a pension under section 13 of the Veteran's Entitlement Act ("VEA") as a veteran's dependant.
UN International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 1966, Article 17 (right to privacy,
home, family and correspondence) and Article 26 (right to non-discrimination)
National National Law
Veterans’ Entitlement Act 1986
Marriage Act 1961
Stats
The 2016 Census counted just under 46,800 same-sex couples living together in Australia.
in 2016, there were 23,700 male same-sex couples and 23,000 female same-sex couples.
Same-sex couples accounted for 0.9% of all couples in Australia,
Australia Yes: 61.6% No: 38%.
NSW 57.8% Yes, 42.2% No
12,727,920 (79.5%) eligible Australians participated in the Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey.
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