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Recognition of same-sex relationships Flashcards

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What raised public awareness that male homosexuality was a crim offence?

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1st Mardi Gras in 1978

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Crimes Amendment Act (NSW)

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1984

decriminalised homosexuality

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Property (Relationships) Legislation Amendment Act (NSW)

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1999

included same-sex couples in property division laws & a large no. existing laws

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What did Property (Relationships) Legilsation Amendment Act 1999 (NSW) reveal?

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growing recognition & acceptance of same-sex relationships & society’s changing values

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What act redefined marriage & prevented same-sex marriages from occuring/being recognised in Australia

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Marriage Legislation Amendment Act 2004 (Cth) amended the Marriage Act 1961

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What did the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) ‘Same-Sex: Same Entitlements’ report into the impact of discriminatory laws & their impact on same-sex couples and their children find?

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2006: 58 discriminatory laws that breached the ICCPR (civil & political) in area of financial and work-related entitlements

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What else did the 2006 Same-Sex: Same Entitlments find?

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Many laws discriminated children of same-sex couples & breached CROC- weren’t in child’s best interest

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What did the 2006 Same-Sex: Same Entitlements recommend?

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that laws be amended to eliminate discrimination against same-sex couples & their children, & so they were in best interests of the child.

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What were some of the main changes to legislation in 2008 following the Same-Sex: Same Entitlements report?

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  • Same-Sex Relationship (= Treamtemtn in Cth Laws-Superannuation)
  • Same-Sex Relationship (= Treamtemtn in Cth Laws-General Law reform)
  • Veterans Entitlement Act 1986 amended in 2009
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Adoption Amendment (Same-Sex Couples) Act introduced after what?

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2010
Parliamentary Inquiry
But biological parents & faith-based agencies can refuse

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What are non-legal responses to this issue?

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AHRC

Gay & Lesbian Rights Lobby

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What did case of Hope & Brown v. NIB Health Fund Ltd. 1995 do?

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recognised rights of same sex couples to family status, thus qualifying them for family insurance

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What happened in case Hope & Brown v. NIB Health Fund Ltd. 1995 do?

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NIB Health Fund didn’t recognise the couple as a family - didn’t fit definition, making it more expensive for Hope & Brown.

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What did case of R v. McEwen do?

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1996

extended an existing ‘battered women’s syndrome’ into domestic same sex relationships

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