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Could Marriage Equality reach Australian shores by the end of the year?
Paris, France; what better a place to propose to your loved one of ten years. Scott, after hiding an engagement ring in his backpack throughout a trip through Europe, found a nice place to sit and popped the big question. In front of the Eifel Tower, as many lovers had done so before them, Scott humbly asked Jordan to spend the rest of his life with him and Jordan said, “Yes.”
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Industrial Hemp: an environmentally sustainable future?
In mid 1990’s, Victoria’s agriculture sector was on the brink of being a world leader in innovation and technology. Industrial hemp, a super crop that yields thousands of uses, from automobiles to baby nappies, was said to change the face of the rural economy.
Source: Flickr/ Kríttik’l Kápchər
Climate change is not open for debate
Climate change is real. Climate change is happening. There is no “debate”, only facts contended by conspiracies, and ulterior motives.
Source: US Geological Survey
A time to assemble, to say farewell
Tucked away in a small side street of inner city Melbourne, local artists let their creative juices flow in one of Yarra City’s most iconic buildings one last time.
Same-same, but different; The marriage equality debate
In March 2010, Lucy Hellard, 38, and Kellie Blokkeeros, 39, married in Canada culminating their 12 year relationship together. Their marriage is recognized across ten countries, including Iceland; the only nation with an openly gay head of state, as well as six US states, Mexico City and the Brazilian state of Alagoas. However back home in Australia their relationship ‘means nothing,’ as Kellie puts it bluntly,
These Machines Cut Razor Wire
Political activists armed with their weapon of choice descended on inner Melbourne on Sunday 15th April, 2012, discontent and dissatisfied by the Government’s treatment of Asylum Seekers in detention.
Rosa Krakowski: A survivor’s story
The walls of the Jewish Holocaust Centre in Elsternwick are lined with a harrowing reminder of the atrocities that are all too familiar to Rosa Krakowski. For fifteen years she has walked visitors through the hallways and corridors of the centre, recounting her experience growing up in a Jewish family in Poland, at the turn of WWII. Continue reading
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