MARRIED PEOPLE – LAW AND LEGISLATION – AUSTRALIA

Abbott faces another Senate revolt over same-sex marriage bill

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Original article by Judith Ireland, Latika Bourke
The Sydney Morning Herald – Page: 6 : 2-Dec-14

A bill put forward by Liberal Democratic Party Senator David Leyonhjelm revises the Marriage Act to recognise same-sex, transgender and intersex unions. Leyonhjelm says that if proper debate is not permitted on the bill, he may follow newly-independent Senator Jacqui Lambie and vote against Australian Government legislation. Prime Minister Tony Abbott appears to have backed away from his election pledge to permit a Liberal Party conscience vote on same-sex marriage, to which he is opposed

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AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF THE PRIME MINISTER AND CABINET, LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY, LIBERAL PARTY OF AUSTRALIA

Man loses bid for share of ex-wife’s $6m lotto win

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Original article by Michaela Whitbourn
The Sydney Morning Herald – Page: 12 : 15-Oct-14

Family Court of Australia judges Stephen Thackray, Peter Murphy and Murray Aldridge have dismissed an appeal against an earlier ruling by judge Janine Stevenson. She had heard that a lottery ticket had been bought by a woman six months after she separated from her husband of two decades. The man sought to claim part of the $A6m won on the ticket, but Stevenson cited a 2011 decision in the Family Division of the High Court of the UK and rejected his case

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FAMILY COURT OF AUSTRALIA, HIGH COURT OF ENGLAND AND WALES