Last night, 12th August 2010, at the annual National Marriage Day celebration dinner held in Sydney, The Shadow Minister for Families, Kevin Andrews, announced a new policy to support and strengthen Australian marriages.
The Coalition Government, if elected, will provide a $200 marriage education voucher for those couples wanting to be better prepared for marriage. Gerard Calilhanna, a spokesman for the National Marriage Coalition said, “This is a major breakthrough for marriage. We have been waiting for this for a long time.
The Marriage Manifesto, which was released to both the Labor and Coalition governments in 2007 at the National Strategic Summit on Marriage, Family and Fatherhood on 18 September 2007, says (Point 8, page 8), “Support Marriage and parenting education programs considering marriage or seeking to improve their family relationships by: introduce a $200 voucher system for marriage preparation courses available to all couples planning to marry.” These policy proposals are now coming to pass.”
Mary-Louise Fowler said, “This is the best news for marriage we have heard from any government since the confirmation of marriage as being between a man and a woman through the marriage amendment act in 2004. We call upon the Labor Government to support this important initiative on a bi-partisan basis as they did in 2004 because we need to promote a renewed culture of marriage within our nation for the common good of all.”
Dr. Allan Carlson Convenor of the World Congress of the Family, who addressed the capacity crowd at the York Conference Centre said, “Thousands of recent research projects in the fields of sociology, psychology, anthropology, and medicine all testify to one truth: children predictably do best when they are born into a married-couple home and raised by their two natural parents.”
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Marriage coalition declares breakthrough as Coalition announces marriage education voucher plan
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Friday, 13 August 2010, 17:15 (EST)
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