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Article and information on adoption and summary tables been updated and sources. Still some areas that could be improved, but overall a much improved effort based on the previous criticism stated below; more encyclopaedic than it's ever been. Note similar updating in LGBT rights in (name Australian state or territory here) articles. ( Jono52795 ( talk) 13:53, 9 November 2013 (UTC))
The intro is poorly written, the result of several edits I'm guessing, and needs to be reworded to make it clearer. I would but honestly don't understand it. Cheers, Rothery 05:01, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
The summary table at the end is actually incorrect and also inconsistent with the article. Homosexuality was not legalised in Australia in 1994 -- it was still illegal in Tasmania until 1997 (as noted earlier in the article)!! I tried to change it but it would not let me. Is someone able to change? 82.11.182.108 ( talk) 22:40, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
The intro is very politically charged. Although John Howard may not have supported gay marriage, Nicola Roxon (now Federal Health Minister) was known for actively canvassing people to support a clarification to marriage law to make it a male-female relationship. Unfortunately both major parties have anti-gays. This article unfairly presents it like a one-way street. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.110.207.220 ( talk) 19:04, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
The intro states, "Same-sex couples are allowed to jointly adopt children in the Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales and Western Australia, and may adopt their partner's stepchild in Tasmania. In all other states except South Australia, LGBT people are allowed to adopt individually." However I am not sure of the validity of this regarding NSW, my legal studies textbook (published in 2010) says, "In 2009, the NSW government was on the brink of legalising the rights of same-sex couples to adopt young children. However, political power exerted by religious groups caused the necessary legislative reforms to be shelved." The act (Adoption Amendment (Same Sex Couples) Act 2010) allowing LGBTs to adopt has been repealed, due to a campaign led by Fred Nile. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.172.240.199 ( talk) 01:22, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
This article has just become too long. I suggest splitting it into multiple new articles seperated by topic. They could all be made easily accessable by listing them all into a new Australian LGBT Navbox Template. We could have categories for relationship laws, politics, culture, history, adoption rights.etc.
Who agrees? —Preceding unsigned comment added by OnlyoneJonsmith ( talk • contribs) 03:30, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
The Australian federal government has recently passed leglislation which removes discrimination in around 100 laws, hence the government finally reconising same-sex couples and there children. The current info on the website does not seem to acknowledge the updated federal leglistation. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.238.127.41 ( talk) 12:51, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
Why don't we have a section devoted to the parties and organizations whom support LGBT rights? Such as the Labor party which controls every single state government and the national government? -- Saffron831 ( talk) 04:12, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
This article says, of MSM discrimination practices, “No other countries or jurisdictions have such policies or have repealed them”. The MSM blood donor controversy article lists many countries has having harsher restrictions then Australia! (at least in 2005). In addition, I recently gave blood in Germany and one of the questions I was asked is if I've had male-to-male sex (or female-to-male sex where the male's had male-to-male). — Felix the Cassowary 16:14, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
The New South Wales Government announced today, that they will be introducing a relationship register for same sex and opposite sex couples. It will be the same as the relationship registries in Victoria, Tasmania and the A.C.T. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.225.48.197 ( talk) 05:32, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
UPDATE:
http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/parlment/nswbills.nsf/7bd7da67ee5a02c5ca256e67000c8755/57f8af30e6a0d630ca25770d001af7dc?OpenDocument —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.148.207.230 ( talk) 15:25, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
This section duplicates some of the entries in Recognition of same-sex unions in Australia, so I have added a reference to it and ensured that these two sections are consistent.
It would be better to refer to separate sections for Relationships/Adoption etc rather than duplicating these sections and maintaining them in two places (as these are areas of constant change).
Updates for consistency and accuracy to this section:-
The State and Territory section to include NSW (Relationships Register Bill 2010 - Royal Assent received in 2010).
Registered relationships convey "the same benefits" afforded to de facto couples in each of the states, according to LGBT Rights in New South Wales. Whether or not exactly the same benefits are afforded to same sex couples as de facto couples, is not covered
The paragraph now refers to "same-sex" couples rather than "de facto" couples, since "de facto" generally refers to the laws afforded to opposite sex couples. Some states (SA) have replaced "de facto" and categorised couples as "domestic partners", so the term "de facto" is still legally ambiguous.
Since this paragraph is referring to the new laws afforded to same-sex couples and not opposite sex couples, this distinction is important. PjThompso 08:42, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
Actually EVERY state, territory and the Commonwealth Government have included same sex couples in the definition of de facto couple in its statutes - you said and quoted: "and in most other Australian jurisdictions" [please get it right]. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.148.207.230 ( talk) 15:22, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of LGBT rights in Australia's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.
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I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 16:36, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
The topic begins with the follwing: "Family Law in Australia with regards to children is often based on what is considered to be in the best interest of the child. The traditional and often used assumption is that children need both a mother and a father, which plays an important role in divorce and custodial proceedings, and has carried over into adoption and fertility procedures, even though those assertions find no support in the scientific research literature.[81][82][83][84][85] In fact, the promotion of this notion, and the laws and public policies that embody it, are clearly counter to the well-being of children.[83] As laws within the whole of Australia since 1 July 2009 have only begun to recognise de facto same-sex couples under the Family Law Act 1975,[86]" However Wikipedia's policy is to write as neturaly as possible, and since there are clearly two different view points here- Traditional Family Law and the more recent view. The way it is currently written clears gives a bias towards the LGBT side. I propose rewriting the two sentences as follows, or something similar. "Family Law in Australia with regards to children is often based on what is considered to be in the best interest of the child. The traditional and often used assumption is that children need both a mother and a father, which plays an important role in divorce and custodial proceedings, and has carried over into adoption and fertility procedures, even though scientific research literature shows little support. [81][82][83][84][85] The research shows that the promotion of this notion, and the laws and public policies that embody it, can be clearly counter to the well-being of children.[83] As laws within the whole of Australia since 1 July 2009 have only begun to recognise de facto same-sex couples under the Family Law Act 1975,[86]" I'm not suggesting that exact wording, just something less bias. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.222.201.121 ( talk) 22:24, 29 August 2011 (UTC)
New SSM bill to be introduced next week? — kwami ( talk) 12:55, 4 November 2013 (UTC)
User:Sam56mas has asserted in an Edit Summary that "There are hundreds of Australian organisations using the terms LGBTQI and LGBTQIA. The Sydney Mardi Gras alone, by any measure, is one of the most notable such organisations in Australia. The utility of these variants is as equally relevant as LGBTI." A scout around of web searches certainly shows a multitude of blogs and Tumblr pages using those terms but, in my view, there is no evidence of hundreds of Australian organisations using terms other then LGBT, or LGBTI (or different orders of those letters). I don't wish to engage in an edit war, so I'm bringing this assertion here, in the hope that more evidence will be forthcoming. Trankuility ( talk) 03:03, 9 June 2014 (UTC)
The definition of intersex is wrong: "with the I denoting intersex people, born with atypical physical sex characteristics." No, a major group of types are born with typical sex characteristics but at puberty they develop toward the other sex. Intersex needs to be thought of in the complete context of sex: external genitalia, sex organs, hormones and hormone receptors and the development of secondary sexual characteristics. The page on intersex covers this well but doesn't do so well when it is put succinctly. Try intersex 'is a variation in sex characteristics including chromosomes, gonads, or genitals that mean an individual may not be distinctly male or female' Avoid the phrase "that do not allow an individual to be distinctly identified" as there is a very long history of medicine and family choosing identity for intersex people, heavily biased toward female and not very accepting of intersex as an identity for sex or gender. Ericglare ( talk) 08:52, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
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Hi everyone, the article has grown considerably and covers several issues that would seem more appropriate in an overarching "LGBT in Australia" article, such as the section on statistics. I propose we move relevant sections over to that article, which could have a similar scope to LGBT in New Zealand for example. What sections do people think would be appropriate to move across? Goldcactus ( talk) 13:50, 12 April 2019 (UTC)