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<span class="date-display-single">Sun, 05/08/2012</span> </div>
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<div class="glw-authors">By <span class="glwnews-article-location"><a href="/taxonomy/term/665">Farida Iqbal</a></span> & <span class="glwnews-article-location"><a href="/taxonomy/term/1106">Rachel Evans</a></span></div><div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image">
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<p>The campaign for marriage equality in Australia has been waged for almost a decade. That federal parliament, despite repeated polls showing support for equal marriage rights regardless of sexuality, has failed to legislate for marriage equality has caused widespread anger.</p>
<p>A sign of the growing momentum for marriage equality came with the announcement at the Tasmanian state Labor conference on August 4 that the Labor-led Tasmanian government would aim to pass legislation this year to legalise same-sex marriage in the state, should federal parliament fail to do so.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/51793" target="_blank">read more</a></p>