"I welcome the Rudd Government 's re-statement today of its opposition to Civil Unions," ACL Managing Director Jim Wallace said.
Attorney General Robert McLelland told the ALP's National Conference in Sydney today that reforms last year removing practical discrimination against same-sex couples were done so with the support of faith-based communities "based on those reforms not undermining the institution of marriage".
Mr Wallace said it was pleasing to see that that the platform rejected any changes which broke faith with Labor's "commitment to maintaining the definition of marriage as currently set out in the Marriage Act".
The Marriage Act defines marriage as the union between and a man and a woman voluntarily entered in to for life.