Australia's first same-sex divorce

in Perth, lawyers lodged documents on behalf of a woman set to become the first in Australia to file for a same-sex divorce.

Source: SBS

She married her long-term partner in 2015 at a consulate in Perth under the laws of a European country where same-sex marriage was already legal.

PM Malcolm Turnbull and Attorney General receives the Marriage Amendment Act from Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove Source: AAP

In August, the United Nations Human Rights Committee found that a couples' inability to divorce in Australia violated international human rights obligations.

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