- Title
- Marriage Equality in Australia and New Zealand: A Trans-Tasman Politics of Difference
- Creator
- Brickell, Chris; Bennett, James
- Relation
- Australian Journal of Politics and History Vol. 67, Issue 2, p. 276-294
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ajph.12752
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2021
- Description
- New Zealand’s parliament legislated for marriage equality in 2013, over four and a half years ahead of the passage of similar legislation in Australia. Civil unions came into being in New Zealand in 2005 but had only been enacted at a state and territory level in Australia, often with a different name. How might we account for these divergences? This article offers a comparative account of the Australian and New Zealand situation in order to explain the different trajectories. It marks out some important political, legal and constitutional contextual issues, personalities and practices that shaped the ways in which the movement for marriage equality was enabled, resisted, and had an impact on people who wanted to marry.
- Subject
- New Zealand; Civil unions; marriage equality; Australia
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1473482
- Identifier
- uon:49039
- Identifier
- ISSN:0004-9522
- Rights
- This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Brickell, Chris; Bennett, James. “Marriage Equality in Australia and New Zealand: A Trans-Tasman Politics of Difference”. Australian Journal of Politics and History Vol. 67, Issue 2, p. 276-294 (2021), which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ajph.12752. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions. This article may not be enhanced, enriched or otherwise transformed into a derivative work, without express permission from Wiley or by statutory rights under applicable legislation. Copyright notices must not be removed, obscured or modified. The article must be linked to Wiley’s version of record on Wiley Online Library and any embedding, framing or otherwise making available the article or pages thereof by third parties from platforms, services and websites other than Wiley Online Library must be prohibited.
- Language
- eng
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