Let's
get on | Dec 09, 2004 11:29
Russell Brown's Hard
News
So here we are, finally. The Civil Union Bill will
pass its final reading today - by a far more comfortable
margin than either last year's prostitution law reform or
the homosexual law reform of 1986 - and, assuming something
untoward doesn't happen to the Relationships bill next year,
we...
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ENDS
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