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SYDNEY - Hundreds of people marched on Sydney's Town Hall yesterday calling for the Federal Government to legalise same-sex marriages.
Greens senator Kerry Nettle said the rally, which began at Taylor Square in Sydney's east, marked three years since the Howard Government decided against legalising gay marriages.
A colourful, noisy crowd marched down Oxford St after Senator Nettle condemned the Federal Government's proposal to ban gay couples from adopting children from overseas.
"We saw the ban on same-sex marriage happen just before the federal election, and three years later we hear the Prime Minister talking about trying to impose a ban on same-sex adoptions from overseas, just before a federal election," Senator Nettle told the rally.
"It's a clear pattern of the Prime Minister trying to garner votes from the conservative religious fundamentalists and in doing so seeking to scapegoat a particular section within out community."
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