/opinion/soapbox-opinion/registries-offer-choice/3441 Setting Australia’s LGBTI agenda since 1979 Mon, 19 Jan 2009 10:07:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 /opinion/soapbox-opinion/registries-offer-choice/3441#comment-10699 Mon, 19 Jan 2009 10:07:08 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=3441#comment-10699 There is no need for Nathan Rees to create one for NSW, as the original 2003 City of Sydney scheme was expanded on 15th January 2005 to cover the WHOLE of NSW.
Any marriage celebrant or MCC Church Minister anywhere in NSW can contact the council on thier hotline & officiate in Dubbo if they want to, without ever having to physically go to Sydney- it can all be done by mail. After the ceremony (yes, the only scheme in Oz to actually have an official ceremony option… on site or off-site), the paperwork just has to be express posted back to Sydney within 7days to go onto the register.
Once the ceremony has been registered, and both the council and the couple have thier certificate, they can then easily access all the recent K-Rudd defacto recognition options, with the one standardised official form/certificate to easily prove thier status.
The other HUGE benefit of the Sydney/NSW existing scheme, is that the couple ALSO sign on the certificate on how long they have ALREADY been together- ie both sign to say for example “we have already been in relationship for four years” on the certificate. So the Sydney/NSW is fantastic for back-dating proof of how long the relationship has already been in existence.
So…. that’s why Nathan Rees hasn’t & won’t bother with a new scheme…. as how could he top that! With the ceremony restrictions imposed by K-Rudd on any new schemes, all that Rees would be allowed to do would be to introduce a similar duplicate scheme, but one that would BAN the existing ceremony component per Rudds wishes of no ceremonies.
So we are better off keeping Clover Moore’s 2005 model that slipped under the radar of both the Howard’s & Rudd’s war on ceremonies… us the ultimate “up yours”, where we can have our ceremony cake & eat it too… anywhere in NSW.

]]> /opinion/soapbox-opinion/registries-offer-choice/3441#comment-10382 Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:38:32 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=3441#comment-10382 Come on Nathan Rees (ALP); provide a relationship register for ALL couple and carers! It is 2009; there is MASSIVE support for them (80 percent support actually). The Greens should introduce a Relationships Bill 2009 (based on the Tassie and Victorian model) in the next sitting of NSW Parliament!

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