Image: Our wedding in a New Zealand storm. 09/03/2017 Sarah Webber Photography. It’s been a year since marriage equality passed the Australian parliament and the nice people at the Australian Bureau Of Statistics released some data to show us just how many same-sex marriages we celebrated in the first six months of this year. In the 2016 Census, there were almost 46,800 same-sex households in Australia, which is 0.9 per cent of all couples living together in Australia. Almost

Image: Labor's new Shadow Assistant Minister For Equality, Louise Pratt The Australian Labor Party’s new Shadow Assistant Minister For Equality, Senator Louise Pratt, has warned that LGBTI rights are under threat from Prime Minister Scott Morrison's "next generation" of leadership. The 46 year old openly lesbian Senator from Western Australia has been an LGBTI activist since her university days and has one child with her former partner, a trans man and LGBT activist. They co-

The Uniting Church Of Australia National Assembly has decided to allow ministers the freedom to conduct or refuse to conduct same-gender marriages. The National Assembly has been meeting in Melbourne since July 7, the first time it has convened since marriage equality was introduced in Australia last year. The National Assembly had earlier requested a report by The Working Group On Doctrine (WDG) to determine whether the church's existing statement of belief on marriage shoul

Photo Credit: @TimWilsonMP Twitter They've been engaged for nine long years, and on Sunday 11th March, Liberal MP Tim Wilson finally married the love of his life, Ryan Bolger. On December 4, 2017, during his speech in the marriage equality debate, Wilson proposed for a second time to his fiancé of nine years, school teacher Ryan Bolger. It was a first for Australian parliament and a moment that made the news around the world. "In my first speech I defined our bond by the r

Apple is celebrating Australian marriage equality with its new Iphone X ad campaign 'First Dance.' The ads feature footage of real same-sex couples enjoying the first dance at their weddings. All of the footage was shot on the Iphone X and the soundtrack is Courtney Barnett’s cover of ‘Never Tear Us Apart’ by INXS. The campaign features a 60 second ad, plus three shorter versions which each feature one couple. The couples are Meg and Ann-Marie, Nick and Rob and Antony and Ro

Kadie & Jess didn't wait for Australia to vote yes, they wed in October. Photo Credit: Matt Rowe Photography It feels like every Aussie same-sex couple I know is getting hitched and luckily, some big players in the bridal magazine market are here to help everyone plan their big days. Paddington Publications, who publish On Trend Bridal and Brisbane Bride magazine have just launched Same Same Weddings Magazine, Australia’s first combined gay and lesbian wedding magazine. The S