Marriage Certificate
Production date
2018
Country
Australia
State/Province
Queensland
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Description
A Commonwealth of Australia Marriage Act 1961 Certificate of Marriage for Craig Wesley Burns and Luke William Sullivan, dated 9 January, 2018.
Classification
DOCUMENTS Certificates marriage
COSTUME Daywear man
COSTUME Daywear man
Production date
2018
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Measurements
Length 210mm x Width 300mm
Media/Materials description
Paper
Signature/Marks
COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA/ MARRIAGE ACT 1961/ CERTIFICATE OF MARRIATE/ I, SARAH MAY ALEXANDER/ HAVING AUTHORITY UNDER THE MARRIAGE ACE 1961 TO SOLEMNISE MARRIAGES, HEREBY CERTIFY THAT I HAVE THIS DAY AT/ SUMMERGROVE ESTATE, 363 CAROOL ROAD, CAROOL, NSW/ DULY SOLEMNISED MARRIAGE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THAT ACT/ BETWEEN CRAIG WESLEY BURNS/ AND LUKE WILLIAM SULLIVAN/ IN THE PRESENCE OF THE UNDERSIGNED WITNESSES./ DATED THIS NINTH DAY OF JANUARY IN THE YEAR 2018/ SIGNATURE OF CELEBRANT/ SIGNATURES OF PARTIES TO THE MARRIAGE/ SIGNATURES OF WITNESSES TO THE MARRIAGE/
AUSTRALIA
Certificate of Marriage
MC217269OAT/ UNDER SECTION 45 OF THE MARRIAGE ACT 1961 THIS CERTIFICATE IS CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE THAT YOUR MARRIAGE HAS/ BEEN SOLEMNISED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THAT SECTION. IT IS AN IMPORTANT DOCUMENT AND YOU SHOULD KEEP IT IN/ A SAFE PLACE WITH OTHER OFFICIAL DOUCMENTS./ THE CERTIFICATE DOWS NOT PROVIDE CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE OF THE IDENTITY OF EITHER OF THE PARTIES TO YOUR MARRIAGE./ IN SOME SITUATION YOU MAY BE ASKED TO PRODUCE A REGISTERED COPY OF YOUR MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE OBTAINED/ FROM THE REGISTRY OF BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES IN THE STATE OR TERRITORY IN WHICH YOU WERE MARRIED./
AUSTRALIA
Certificate of Marriage
MC217269OAT/ UNDER SECTION 45 OF THE MARRIAGE ACT 1961 THIS CERTIFICATE IS CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE THAT YOUR MARRIAGE HAS/ BEEN SOLEMNISED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THAT SECTION. IT IS AN IMPORTANT DOCUMENT AND YOU SHOULD KEEP IT IN/ A SAFE PLACE WITH OTHER OFFICIAL DOUCMENTS./ THE CERTIFICATE DOWS NOT PROVIDE CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE OF THE IDENTITY OF EITHER OF THE PARTIES TO YOUR MARRIAGE./ IN SOME SITUATION YOU MAY BE ASKED TO PRODUCE A REGISTERED COPY OF YOUR MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE OBTAINED/ FROM THE REGISTRY OF BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES IN THE STATE OR TERRITORY IN WHICH YOU WERE MARRIED./
History and use
This collection of wedding-related clothing, accessories, photographs and ephemera, donated by Craig Burns and Luke Sullivan, is of significant historical and social importance in the history of Australia’s marriage legislation and in the narrative of Australia’s, and especially Queensland’s, legal, social and political journey towards marriage equality.
On December 7, 2016, following an overwhelmingly positive response to an Australian Bureau of Statistics survey, the Australian parliament, almost unanimously, legislated to pass a bill to allow two people, regardless of sex, to marry. The passage of the bill, Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Act 2017, followed years of activism and political lobbying.
In January 2018, in a civil ceremony attended by their families and closest friends, Queensland athletes Craig Burns and Luke Sullivan made their vows to one another, exchanged rings and were legally married. Timing the service to say ‘I do’ just moments after midnight on 9 January 2018, Craig and Luke became the first Queensland same-sex couple to be married after the Parliament of Australia Marriage Amendment Act 2017 allowing same-sex couples to marry came into effect.
Craig, a XXI Commonwealth Games baton bearer, four hundred metre National Champion and four time Australia representative and his partner, also a track athlete, Luke, met in 2014 and became engaged in March 2016 after Luke accepted a marriage proposal by Craig at a secluded beach near Byron Bay. Their wedding at ‘Summergrove Estate’, Tweed Heads, was also one of the first same-sex weddings in Australia, due to the time differences that exist between Eastern and Western Australia and also summer daylight saving differences between New South Wales and Queensland.
On December 7, 2016, following an overwhelmingly positive response to an Australian Bureau of Statistics survey, the Australian parliament, almost unanimously, legislated to pass a bill to allow two people, regardless of sex, to marry. The passage of the bill, Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Act 2017, followed years of activism and political lobbying.
In January 2018, in a civil ceremony attended by their families and closest friends, Queensland athletes Craig Burns and Luke Sullivan made their vows to one another, exchanged rings and were legally married. Timing the service to say ‘I do’ just moments after midnight on 9 January 2018, Craig and Luke became the first Queensland same-sex couple to be married after the Parliament of Australia Marriage Amendment Act 2017 allowing same-sex couples to marry came into effect.
Craig, a XXI Commonwealth Games baton bearer, four hundred metre National Champion and four time Australia representative and his partner, also a track athlete, Luke, met in 2014 and became engaged in March 2016 after Luke accepted a marriage proposal by Craig at a secluded beach near Byron Bay. Their wedding at ‘Summergrove Estate’, Tweed Heads, was also one of the first same-sex weddings in Australia, due to the time differences that exist between Eastern and Western Australia and also summer daylight saving differences between New South Wales and Queensland.
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