Thursday,
19 December 2024
Celebration of the celebrant

FROM bushwalks, courthouses and hill climbs, civil marriage celebrants have experienced it all in order to pronounce a wedding.

Before July 19, 1973, marriages were the domain of the Christian churches or the state registry offices, until Attorney General Lionel Murphy agreed with the activists and consequently secularised Marriage Law in Australia, giving way to the first appointment of civil cel...

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