Marriage and Equality

See, eg, Pateman Carole , The Sexual Contract (Polity Press, 1988).

See, eg, Bittman Michael Pixley Jocelyn , The Double Life of the Family (Allen & Unwin, 1997).

Sex Discrimination Act 1994 (Cth), s 6.

Marriage Act 1961 (Cth), s 5.

MacFarlane Alan , Marriage and Love in England 1300–1840 (Basil Blackwell, 1986).

See, generally, Stone Lawrence , Uncertain Unions: Marriage in England 1660–1753 (Oxford University Press, 1992).

Blackstone William Sir , Commentaries on the Laws of England, Vol. 1 (1765), 442.

See, eg, discussion in Lindell Geoffrey , ‘Constitutional Issues Regarding Same-Sex Marriage: A Comparative Survey – North America and Australasia’ (2008) 30 Sydney Law Review 27.

MacFarlane , above n 5, 149.

See, generally, Stone Lawrence , The Family, Sex and Marriage in England 1500–1800 (Penguin, 1979).

Atkinson Alan , ‘Convicts and Courtship,’ in Grimshaw Patricia McConville Chris McEwen Ellen (eds), Families in Colonial Australia (Allen & Unwin, 1985), 25, cited in Australian Parliament, House of Representatives Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs, Advisory Report on the Marriage Equality Amendment Bill 2012 and Marriage Amendment Bill 2012 (18 June 2012).

Ellinghaus Katherine , ‘Absorbing the “Aboriginal problem”: Controlling Interracial Marriage in Australia in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries’ (2003) 27 Aboriginal History 183.

Watson Nicole , ‘The Abuse of Indigenous Land Tenure as a Tool of Social Engineering’ (2008) Journal of the Australasian Law Teachers Association 163.

Hyde v Hyde and Woodmansee (1866) LR 1 P&D 130. See, eg, discussion in Summerfield Tracey , ‘Understanding the Law of the Family: A Question of Practice, Not Interpretation’ (2002) 11(1) Griffith Law Review 44.

Stone , above n 6, 237. See also Stychin Carl , ‘Family Friendly? Rights, Responsibilities and Relationship Recognition’ in Diduck Alison O'Donovan Katherine (eds), Feminist Perspectives on Family Law (Routledge-Cavendish, 2006) 21.

Bittman Pixley , above n 2; Baxter Janeen , ‘Gender, Justice and Domestic Work: Life Course Transitions and Perceptions of Fairness’ (2013) 4(1) Longitudinal and Life Course Studies 78.

Pahl Jan , Money and Marriage (Macmillan, 1989).

See, eg, Fineman Martha Albertson , The Autonomy Myth: A Theory of Dependency (The New Press, 2004).

See, eg, Property Law Act 1974 (Qld), Part 19. The definition of ‘de facto partners’ is to be interpreted regardless of the parties' gender: section 260, Property Law Act 1974 (Qld), referring to s 32DA Acts Interpretation Act 1954 (Qld).

See s 67ZC of the Family Law Act 1975 (Cth).

Millbank Jenni , ‘Recognition of Lesbian and Gay Families in Australian Law – Part One: Couples’ (2006) 34(1) Federal Law Review 1; Millbank Jenni , ‘Recognition of Lesbian and Gay Families in Australian Law – Part Two: Children’ (2006) 34(2) Federal Law Review 205.

See, eg, Marriage Amendment (Marriage Equality) Bill 2015 (Cth).

Regan Milton C , Family Law and the Pursuit of Intimacy (New York University Press, 1993).

See also Stone , above n 6.

Obergefell v Hodges 576 US (2015), 3.

Commonwealth, Parliamentary Debates, House of Representatives, 15 November 2010, 2286 ( Bandt Adam ).

See, eg, Jessup Brad , The Court Hurts: A Personal Reflection on Commonwealth v ACT (“Same Sex Marriage Case”)' (2014) 39(1) Alternative Law Journal 45.

Section 51 (xxi).

Olsen Frances E , The Myth of State Intervention in the Family' (1985) 18 University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform 835.

Regan , above n 23; Reece Helen , Divorcing Responsibly (Hart, 2003).

Pateman , above n 1; Glendon Mary Ann , The New Family and the New Property (Butterworths, 1981).

Beck-Gernsheim Elisabeth , ‘On the Way to a Post-Familial Family: From a Community of Need to Elective Affinities’ in Diduck Alison (ed), Marriage and Cohabitation: Regulating Intimacy, Affection and Care (Ashgate, 2008) 3.

Stychin , above n 15, 34.

For an example of how an amendment in favour of marriage equality represents human rights, see Explanatory Memorandum and Statement of Compatibility with Human Rights, Marriage Amendment (Marriage Equality) Bill 2015 (Cth).

Jessup , above n 27.