Talk:Marriage in Australia

Neutrality
The section on Same-sex marriage isn't written from a neutral point of view and is clearly propaganda from anti-marriage equality with their reasons clearly aired with no counter material to balance. We are not trying specifically to get same-sex marriage legalised. All our attempts have been to remove discrimination from the Marriage Act. Same-sex does not include intersex people and it takes transgender people very cruelly back to their birth sex which they have had to fight against suicide to reconcile. Using same-sex marriage instead of marriage equality is either naivety or political objection to the use of the word equality, neither of which should determine Wiki content.Ericglare (talk) 11:08, 15 September 2014 (UTC)
 * I agree. More bias is creeping in.  The section presents some arguments against same-sex marriage but not for.  It makes predictions about a loss of freedom of religion but doesn't explain how as well as suggesting same-sex marriage will nullify parts of the English language.  It uses the inappropriate phrase "It has been said".  It goes off-topic with details about school funding.  It is also referencing opinion pieces. In short it emphasises the main (but very weak) arguments against changes while providing few details of the alternate view. - Shiftchange (talk) 22:59, 10 November 2015 (UTC)
 * After reading the the section at issue I feel it would be more accurate to label it Arguments Against Same-Sex Marriage. Michael Glass (talk) 10:44, 7 January 2017 (UTC) As such, it is clearly not written from a neutral point of view, and apart from stating that same sex marriage is not currently permitted, it is irrelevant at this location. Michael Glass (talk) 00:34, 8 January 2017 (UTC)
 * This section has been split out and moved to Recognition_of_same-sex_unions_in_Australia as it is more relevant to the information about the debate there. Given this is a general article about marriage rather than the same-sex marriage debate, this removes the undue weight previously given to the Arguments Against section here. Goldcactus (talk) 14:18, 18 July 2017 (UTC)

What is missing?
I think there should be more on the ceremony, typical venues and traditions followed here. Any notable state requirement, possibly a controversial quote, maybe mentioning Julia Gillard was the first unmarried Prime Minister, something about the church's role and secularism's influence and at least one demographic map, maybe, should be included. - Shiftchange (talk) 01:26, 4 August 2013 (UTC)

I would delete the section. There is a whole page on the subject. The short paragraph under societal changes is enough with the link to the same sex discussion — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.149.120.152 (talk) 02:08, 5 June 2016 (UTC)

one-sided
Why is there a significant "Arguments against same sex marriage" when there is not a corresponding "Arguments for same sex marriage" section??? 121.73.7.84 (talk) 13:12, 12 March 2017 (UTC)

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