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[–]RedEyedWarriorGay | Male | 🇮🇪 Irish 🇮🇪 | Antineoliberal | Cocks are Compulsory 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They were forward thinking in the 2000s. They did legalise civil partnerships in 2004, the first state in Australia to so, and probably the third jurisdiction in the Southern Hemisphere after Buenos Aires and Rio Negro in Argentina. That reform came with stepchild adoption rights, which was also revolutionary for Australia back then, because the only other state to grant some adoption rights to gay couples in Australia was Western Australia in 2002. Apparently, that was all just a phase.