A Labor MP has attacked the Coalition government's Senate leader Eric Abetz as an "anachronistic joke" in an impassioned speech recounting the story of a gay uncle who died of AIDS without the right to marry his long-term partner. Senator Abetz reportedly told the Coalition party room on Tuesday that not all gay men want to get married, pointing to the example of billionaire Italian fashion designers Dolce and Gabbana, who never wed. The Coalition party room voted by around 60 votes to 30 on Tuesday not to allow a conscience vote on same-sex marriage, killing off the prospect of the change being legalised before the next election. Victorian Labor MP Tim Watts, who is regarded as one of the party's rising stars, said he abandoned plans to give a more routine, impersonal speech in support of same-sex marriage after reading Senator Abetz's comments. Mr Watts said some members of his family, who were conservative and religious, struggled to accept his uncle when he came out as gay in the Joh Bjelke-Petersen era.


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My uncle has done far better than Mahama in infrastructure, health, others - Gabby
The first episode from the series, a remake of the pilot, aired on 13 January In December , it was announced that the series would return for a third series, which was announced as the final series by Nick Helm on social media. The show was commissioned by the BBC after a pilot was originally broadcast on Channel 4. Uncle is filmed on-location in Croydon. They obviously are an actual family, but they create this unconventional revised family unit.


My uncle has done far better than Mahama in infrastructure, health, others – Gabby
He made this known while praising his uncle for fulfilling his promise of providing each constituency in the country with an ambulance. On the economy: Akufo-Addo has done better. On health: Akufo-Addo has done better.



The wife of prisons minister Crispin Blunt is 'completely traumatised' by his admission that he is gay. The couple have separated after nearly 20 years of marriage following Mr Blunt's shock confession on Friday that he has been living a lie. Friends say Victoria Blunt - a former banker, and the daughter of a wealthy American - felt betrayed because she had sacrificed her career and used her fortune to support her husband's political life.