Australian pro gay marriage ad
Is Australia's gay marriage debate being 'stifled'?
In 2008, the Australian government amended 84 laws that discriminated against same-sex couples.
Legislation about everything from taxation and employment to health-care benefits and pension payments was changed to allow gay couples the same rights as heterosexual couples.
The Australian Human Rights Commission hailed the amendments as an important step on the road to full equality for same-sex couples.
The changes allowed "people to have dignity", says Lyle Shelton, a former news writer and political adviser who is now managing director of a Christian lobby group.
Since then there has been a push to transform Australia's marriage laws to allow homosexual couples to legally wed.
But Mr Shelton says this is a step too far.
His Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) - a grass roots movement of people who want to inject Christian values into national politics - does not want the definition of marriage to be widened to include same-sex couples.
And he claims that the views of traditional marriage supporters have been drowned out by queer lobbyists and the media.
GetUp! Australia’s widespread pro-gay marriage ad is to air in the Us to back the American marriage equality movement ahead of elections in November.
‘It’s time’, a lgbtq+ love story that ends in a marriage suggestion, first launched in Australia in November last year in the run-up to the Labor Party national conference.
An edited version of the ad is creature used by a non-profit named after GetUp!’s movie, It’s Time Marriage Equality, which is trying to raise Us$100,000 (Au$96,000) to fund airings across the country.
The group, which has legal consent from GetUp! to use the motion picture, has partnered with fundraising platform Social Teeth and media buying group Aegis to get the ad on primetime TV. Networks including ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox, CNN and Fox News have been targeted. So far, enough money has...
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The Australian prints occupied page ad of pro-marriage equality companies
MORE than 50 Australian businesses have come together in a entire page advertisement in today’s The Australian in a show of support for marriage equality.
Placed on page five of the national newspaper, the ad (scroll down to view in full) is seen as a declaration from Australia’s biggest businesses declaring “corporate Australia supports marriage equality”.
Companies listed include Westpac, BT Financial, St George, ANZ, Commonwealth Bank, David Jones, Fitness First, Foxtel, Google, KPMG, Optus, PWC, Qantas, Slater & Gordon, Telstra and Virgin Money.
The Celestial body Observer is also among the businesses listed.
These supporters, along with many more, have signed a letter of assist calling for marriage equality to be legislated by Australian parliament.
Australian Marriage Equality national convenor Rodney Croome said the business community’s assist for marriage equality reflected the importance it placed on treating all staff and customers.
“I applaud Australia’s business society for its direction on marriage equality, and for the powerful message it is sending to our federal
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It consists of a TVC, out-of-home, social components and a website, with messages including “We can make the ultimate sacrifice but we can’t craft the ultimate commitment” and “We can hold a life in our hands but we can’t question for our partner’s hand”.
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Gay marriage: Australia's businesses accept out full-page ad backing same-sex partnerships
Some of Australia's biggest businesses have thrown their weight behind the push for gay marriage, with a full-page newspaper advertisement today.
Corporations including Google, Qantas, Optus and the ANZ and Commonwealth banks have put their names to a list of Australian businesses backing marriage equality.
Others supporters include rule firms Slater and Gordon and Gilbert and Tobin, and the Football Federation of Australia.
Australian Marriage Equality national director Rodney Croome said the corporations approached the organisation send the message that Australia's business community was behind marriage equality.
"It was about corporate saying it's not just about us individually supporting this, we want to do it collectively and send the strongest feasible message," Mr Croome said.
He said corporations understood the importance of respect for diversity in the workplace and equality for staff and customers.
"They're also very sensitive of course to Australia's international reputation ... that is at chance of suffering if we don't catch