Highights of the AAP National Wire at 14:30, Dec 32011

AAP General News (Australia)
12-03-2011
Highights of the AAP National Wire at 14:30, Dec 32011
Highlights of the AAP National Wire at 14:30, Dec 32011.

ALP NATIONAL CONFERENCE:

- with pics and video

SYDNEY - The Australian Labor Party has voted in favour of same-sex marriage. (LABOR GAY VOTE)

SYDNEY - Labor backbencher Stephen Jones will introduce a private member's bill in
federal parliament to allow same-sex marriage. (LABOR GAY JONES)

SYDNEY - Same-sex marriage is two conscience votes in federal parliament away from
becoming law in Australia. (LABOR 2nd Update)



SYDNEY - Senator Penny Wong has thanked Labor party delegates for voting in favour
of same-sex marriage. (LABOR GAY WONG)

SYDNEY - The Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) says the Labor Party's vote in favour
of same-sex marriage means there is now a clear difference between federal Labor and the
coalition. (LABOR GAY ACL)

SYDNEY - The Labor Party's vote in favour of gay marriage would have one-time ALP luminaries
such as John Curtin "turning in their graves", says Christian Democrat leader Fred Nile.

(LABOR GAY NILE)

SYDNEY - Queensland Premier Anna Bligh says Labor's support for same-sex marriage won't
be a major issue for voters at next year's state election. (LABOR GAY BLIGH)

CANBERRA - Australian Workers Union (AWU) secretary Paul Howes has challenged the Liberal
party to have an open debate on same-sex marriage as Labor has done.

SYDNEY - The Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) says the Labor Party's vote in favour
of same-sex marriage means there is now a clear difference between federal Labor and the
coalition. (Labor Gay ACL)

SYDNEY - Thousands of gay rights advocates have marched through Sydney and some are
angry Prime Minister Julia Gillard plans to give federal MPs a conscience vote on any
legislation to allow same-sex marriage (LABOR RALLY)

SYDNEY - A rally against gay marriage in Sydney has been drowned out by protesters. (Gay Rally)

SYDNEY - Same-sex marriage advocates have called on federal Coalition Leader Tony Abbott
to allow his MPs a conscience vote on the issue, after the Labor party passed major reforms
at its national conference. (LABOR ABBOTT)



...see also Labor Gay Factbox



(LABOR Wrap to come, focusing on marriage issue, plus LABOR ANALYSIS on what it means
for legislation and PM's election promise, plus Greens reaction, plus LABOR QUOTES)





SYDNEY - Federal Home Affairs Minister Brendan O'Connor says he will back an increase
to Australia's humanitarian refugee intake when the issue is raised at the Labor's national
conference in Sydney. (Boat)

(BOAT update to come after ALP conference debate this afternoon.)





PERTH - Homes are still in danger from a bushfire in Western Australias southwest,
despite firefighters having worked through the night to contain it. (Bushfires WA Update)

(BUSHFIRES WA Wrap to come)



SYDNEY - Labor frontbencher Peter Garrett says he will not support a push by Prime
Minister Julia Gillard to change the party's stance on uranium sales to India. (LABOR
URANIUM)



SYDNEY - More than 170 people have been arrested across NSW in a police blitz on alcohol-fuelled
crime. (Unite)

MELBOURNE - Police arrested 88 people for drunkenness and assault in Victoria on the
first night of a trans-Tasman blitz on alcohol-fuelled violence and crime. (UNITE VIC)



PERTH - A 20-year-old man has died after being shot outside a home in Perth's north.

(SHOOTING WA)

(SHOOTING WA update to come)



TOOWOOMBA, Qld - A woman doused herself in petrol and threatened to set herself alight
on the top of a shopping centre car park in Toowoomba. (Petrol)

SYDNEY - A man has had his leg amputated after he was hit by a car while standing on
a footpath in Sydney's inner west. (Pedestrian)

SYDNEY - Cannabis worth nearly $2 million has been seized on the NSW mid north coast. (Cannabis)

SYDNEY - Two men have been stabbed during a brawl in Sydney's southwest. (Brawl)

MELBOURNE - Two people have died in a two-car smash in central Victoria. (Toll Vic)

SYDNEY - Cricket great Sam Loxton, a member of the Australian team that went through
the 1948 Test tour of England undefeated, has died.



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