Australia: NSW Plans to Create Domestic Partner Registry

Gay and unmarried heterosexual couples will soon be able to sign up to a relationships register in New South Wales, designed to make it easier for them to access legal entitlements. The State Government has announced it is introducing legislation to create the register, modelled on those already in place in the ACT, Victoria and Tasmania.

NSW Attorney General John Hatzistergos says unlike the ACT, the state will not provide for civil unions. "The Commonwealth has the responsibility for marriage generally," he said.

"What we're trying to do here is provide a simple and dignified mechanism for people to be able to have their relationships recorded, whether they are same-sex or heterosexual, and to be able to facilitate access to the family court system, but also to various entitlements under state and federal law."

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