Five years after marriage equality comes divorce equality – or at least the start

Five years after marriage equality comes divorce equality – or at least the start

For the first time,the Australian Bureau of Statistics has released data on same-sex divorces,with 473 couples splitting in 2021.

  • byMichael Koziol

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Socceroos,Football Australia speak out on Qatar’s human rights record

Socceroos,Football Australia speak out on Qatar’s human rights record

The Socceroos have become the first FIFA World Cup side to release a collective statement of protest against Qatar’s human rights record.

  • byVince Rugari
We do:Why thousands of Australians are saying yes to marriage celebrants

We do:Why thousands of Australians are saying yes to marriage celebrants

“It’s like celebrancy is the new personal-training career choice,” says celebrant Anthony Cribbes. But is there any quality control?

  • byStephen Brook
‘Yield!’:Former High Court judge Michael Kirby’s surprising relationship secret

‘Yield!’:Former High Court judge Michael Kirby’s surprising relationship secret

The 83-year-old talks about living through the AIDS pandemic,why he still gets up at 6am for work,and why giving in is the clue to a happy marriage.

  • byBenjamin Law
‘Warning bells’:Anglican rebels can’t back both sides,bishops say
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‘Warning bells’:Anglican rebels can’t back both sides,bishops say

Just a week after it was launched,“warning bells of a legal nature” are ringing over a conservative,breakaway Anglican church.

  • byJordan Baker
Singapore’s gay-sex ban repeal may not be much progress at all

Singapore’s gay-sex ban repeal may not be much progress at all

Bryan Choong,who was lucky to be accepted as gay in the Air Force,says life will get a little easier for gay men in his country,but not easy enough.

  • byChris Barrett
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‘It’s a sin’:How sex and women split the Anglican church

‘It’s a sin’:How sex and women split the Anglican church

The splintering that culminated in this week’s rupture of the Australian church began 20 years ago,when an openly gay,non-celibate man was elected as a bishop in the United States.

  • byJordan Baker
Progressive Anglicans ‘devastated’ by conservative schism over same-sex marriage

Progressive Anglicans ‘devastated’ by conservative schism over same-sex marriage

Some are questioning whether the new church,the Diocese of the Southern Cross,can legitimately call itself Anglican.

  • byJordan Baker andRachael Dexter
Anglican schism:how dare these fundamentalist defectors question our faith
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Anglican schism:how dare these fundamentalist defectors question our faith

An Anglican priest responds to breakaway Anglicans and their rejection of same-sex marriage in the church. Basically,he writes,it’s “hetero or hell”.

  • byMatthew Anstey
Australian Anglican church splits as conservatives form breakaway
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Australian Anglican church splits as conservatives form breakaway

The bishop of the Diocese of the Southern Cross,former Sydney archbishop Glenn Davies,says the new movement will send “shivers down the spines of some bishops”.

  • byJordan Baker
One of the great sports movies skipped over the truth. This TV show gets it right
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One of the great sports movies skipped over the truth. This TV show gets it right

The new eight-part A League of Their Own is far from a retread of the 1992 film starring Geena Davis,Madonna and Tom Hanks.

  • byKarl Quinn