How does Australia compare to the way the campaign for marriage equality is developing internationally?
Lawonski: At the moment there is a lot more progress around the world than in Australia. Even Albania and Luxembourg have become two of the most recent countries to give some kind of recognition to same-sex couples. They’re coming up with other civil unions or marriage in plenty of places, even in America. So Australia is really far behind at the moment. Croome: Australia has fallen behind other Western countries when it comes to the recognition of same-sex relationships generally, and same-sex marriage in particular. Loader: We certainly have moved slower than many comparable OECD Western nations So while we have certainly done very well in terms of getting our de facto recognition across the line and largely complete, we’ve still got some work to do in terms of providing a registration of partnership scheme whether that is marriage or something very close to it. We’ve still got some ground to move on that. Pitman: Given there are now seven countries and six states of the US [that sup
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