The Demography of Australia's Same-Sex Marriage 'Pioneers': Results from the First Year of Marriage Equality

Fiona Shalley; Tom Wilson

doi:10.3917/popu.2104.0639

The Demography of Australia's Same-Sex Marriage 'Pioneers': Results from the First Year of Marriage Equality

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The introduction in 2000 of same-sex marriage rights in the Netherlands initiated a slow but irreversible movement. Since then, 31 countries on all continents have passed such legislation. Australia did so in 2017. Administrative statistics make it possible to count these samesex couples and describe their partners‘ characteristics. Following the French case (Population, no. 4, 2019), the Australian experience provides us with original demographic knowledge on these new married couples, as yet little studied statistically.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	595-620
Number of pages	26
Journal	Population
Volume	76
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3917/popu.2104.0639
Publication status	Published - Oct 2021

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