Howard's actually moving to have same-sex unions completely unrecognised in Australian law.
By that, I mean he's actually going out of his way to have the legal documentation changed, to prevent any same-sex union of any kind being legally recognised.
If one half of a gay couple dies, the other half has no rights at all, even if they've been together for 50 years. While different-sex couples get loads of widow rights and such, same-sex couples get nothing.
Howard's a bigoted bloody chimp.
― Always Winter Never Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 02:26 (twenty-two years ago)