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December 12, 2013
The weddings were legalised in the capital Canberra on Saturday after regional authorities enacted a gay marriage law – which the government said was invalid.
Today the High Court of Australia agreed, shattering the dreams of more than a dozen couples who had already married this week.
Australia’s Prime Minister is against gay marriage and the national Marriage Act was amended in
2004 to define weddings as ‘between a man and a woman’.
The government told the High Court that having different marriage laws in different states would cause confusion.
The Australian Capital Territory, which passed the law in October, said it should stand because it governs couples outside the federal definition of marriage as being between members of the opposite sex.
Today the court sided with the government, saying the two laws could not run side-by-side.
Ivan Hinton, who married his partner Chris Teoh on Saturday, had only received their marriage certificate on Wednesday and had already applied to change their surnames to Hinton-Teoh.
Outside court he said he will always consider Mr Teoh his husband and added: ‘This was an unprecedented and historic opportunity. I wouldn’t have missed it for the world.’
The court said in a statement: ‘The Marriage Act does not now provide for the formation or recognition of marriage between same sex couples. The Marriage Act provides that a marriage can be solemnised in Australia only between a man and a woman.
‘That Act is a comprehensive and exhaustive statement of the law of marriage.’
Rodney Croome, national director of the advocacy group Australian Marriage Equality, said his group knows of about 30 same-sex couples who have married since Saturday, though the actual number may be slightly higher.
