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Australian history has been made. Same sex marriage is now LEGAL!


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Australia has officially become the 26th country to legalise same-sex marriage after the law was passed on Thursday with the overwhelming backing of the Federal Parliament.
 
Thirteen years after changing the Marriage Act to explicitly forbid same-sex unions, federal politicians voted to undo the last major piece of discrimination against gay and lesbian Australians.
 
It followed last month's emphatic resolution of the Australian public in the postal survey to join the rest of the English-speaking world by embracing marriage equality.
 
The vote in the House of Representatives, minutes before 6pm on Thursday, came after last week's vote in the Senate, meaning the law has now passed both houses of Parliament.
 
"Australia has done it. What a day for love, for equality, for respect," declared a jubilant Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, who punched the air as he called it a historic day for the nation.
 
 "This belongs to us all. This is Australia – fair , diverse, loving and filled with respect for every one of us. This has been a great, unifying day in our history."
 
Later, Mr Turnbull put the momentous social reform in the same category as the 1967 referendum to count Indigenous people in the census, and said he was proud it occurred under his leadership.
 
Attorney-General George Brandis advised the law would formally change on Saturday, allowing same-sex couples to lodge a Notice of Intended Marriage from this weekend.
 
The minimum notice period is one month, meaning the first legally recognised same-sex wedding could take place on January 9.
 
 
 

 

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Coool, but noone cares about Australia anyway. Australia is land of convicts thats why their IQ ranking as a nation is at the bottom.

 

What about the asian immigrants who came to Australia, oh wise lord who knows all

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YESSSSSS FINALLY, SO HAPPY THAT JUSTICE HAS BEEN ACHIEVED 

 

Coool, but noone cares about Australia anyway. Australia is land of convicts thats why their IQ ranking as a nation is at the bottom.

If you didn't care then you wouldn't be in this thread, or arguing. Then again, it's true that you're a nobody. Shoo, shoo

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Nope, It funny how 80% of the STEM degrees in UNI are filled with Asians. Try again. Being a citizen doesnt matter, its where you took the IQ test smile.png

 

It does matter. You needed to be an Australian citizen to participate in that particular IQ survey. I took the survey hon. I think I would know.

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