Because for too many people in the world nothing less than marriage confers any domestic partner’s rights at all, no matter what other legal “protections” and arrangements are put into place.
Politics
Endangered Sunday: Wedge-Tailed Eagle
also, allegedly, known as the Eaglehawk, although that’s not a term I ever heard as a youngster. Official Status: Threatened (and Endangered in Tasmania)
Toby Ziegler responds to this week in the blogosphere
Josh Lyman is obviously playing “The Blogosphere” here, and of course, it’s actually every week in the blogosphere. Probably every week ever in the history of humanity, actually.
Quick Hit – Premier’s Expert Advisory Council on Women (NSW)
Expressions of interest are invited for membership of the Premier’s Expert Advisory Council on Women. The Premier’s Expert Advisory Council provides specialist advice to the NSW Government about issues affecting the status of women in NSW. It is an expert… Read More ›
Another gutless conservative deletes his Twitter account
here, preserved in a screencap, is Australian uni student Nick Sowden calling Barack Obama a monkey during the much-publicised interview with Kerry O’Brien on the 7:30 report on Wednesday night:
How many hours can someone be stuck in a car?
On Monday there was an accident on NSW’s F3 freeway, which runs from Sydney to Newcastle and is thus a major commuter road. The accident involved two trucks and completely stopped northbound traffic from 11:40am. For various reasons the road… Read More ›
Endangered Sunday: Aussie natives need to be pets to survive?
ABC Online: Pet market tipped to save endangered wildlife Our native animals are so vulnerable to feral species in the wild that a major rethink of long-standing policy (that many native animals are illegal to keep as pets) is in… Read More ›
Quickhit: Kelly Vincent elected to Upper House in South Australia!
The results have been declared! Image: A smiling Kelly Vincent, Dignity for Disability candidate, with a blue flower in her hair and holding a bouquet of pink roses, sits next to former leader of the Australian Democrats Natasha Stott-Despoja. South… Read More ›
Second Chance Prom for Constance McMillen
Which she wouldn’t need if she didn’t live in a town full of sanctimonious liars. Congratulations to Fulton, Mississippi for the place you now hold in the annals of bigotry.
Latest from WikiLeaks: Collateral Murder
The so-called weapons that the gunship soldiers thought they saw were all in fact cameras. They shot to death a group of people walking down the street, and then slaughtered people with children coming to help the wounded, just because some of them had cameras.
Hoyden About Town 