New Zealand thriving on Australian same-sex weddings

(AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)

(AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley) Source: AAP

While Australia ponders whether to legalise same-sex marriage, across the Tasman Sea in New Zealand the delay has meant good money for many businesses. Nearly a thousand Australian couples have been married In New Zealand since the laws changed four years ago, more than a quarter of the same-sex marriages in the country.



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