Mark Durie
In a previous post I offered some thoughts on the plebiscite to change the definition of marriage in Australia's Marriage Act. Here are some more reflections in the light of responses received to that post. Anyone who speaks up in favour of retaining the current definition...
It seems Australia is making its way to a postal vote on whether we should change our marriage laws to remove reference to gender, i.e. to make same-sex marriage lawful. Whatever the outcome of the postal vote, the parliament will still have to decide, and our...
As a follow-on to my previous post on Julia Baird's article on Christianity and Domestic Abuse, I note a vigorous response by Dr Steven Tracy, whose work Baird cited. I agree with many things Steven Tracy says about Baird's work, but I don't agree that she...