CANBERRA, March 20 (Xinhua) -- Australians in some of the nation's most conservative electorates have thrown their support behind the same same-sex marriage movement, the results of a poll showed on Monday.
ReachTel polled Australians living in 12 conservative seats, including Treasurer Scott Morrison's seat of Cook, Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce's seat of New England and Trade Minister Steve Ciobo's electorate of Moncrieff, finding that a majority of voters in all 12 of the electorates polled supported same-sex marriage.
A majority of voters also said it was "very important" that the issue will be resolved in Parliament in 2017.
Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce is against legalizing same-sex marriage in Australia, but 50.5 percent of voters in his seat are for allowing same-sex couples to marry. On the other hand, 39 percent opposed.
More than 56 percent of people in Treasurer Scott Morrison's seat would like to see same-sex couples afforded the same rights as other Australians, while 61.2 percent of those in the safe Liberal seat of Moncrieff in Queensland said they support same-sex marriage. Crucially, that seat's representative, Trade Minister Steve Ciobo, is also in favor of marriage equality.
The poll was commissioned by Australians for Equality and asked the opinion of 700 people in each electorate. The movement's director, Tiernan Brady said the results reflected "what we are seeing in town hall meetings all around Australia."
"This won't go away, this doesn't need to be a political football, a clear majority of voters in every party want this," Brady told Fairfax Media on Monday.
There is currently a push within government to allow a free vote on the issue before the federal budget is handed down in May, however the prime minister has said a plebiscite, or non-binding public vote, would still be going ahead later in the year.
HARARE Cheap NHL Jerseys Online , Sept. 10 (Xinhua) -- Zimbabwe's Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa said Wednesday that Zimbabwe is on track to secure more Chinese funding to bankroll infrastructure projects and the government is working to facilitate private firms, not just big state firms, to tap into that resources with bankable projects.
Chinamasa made the comments at a business forum held after agreements on "mega-projects", as he described Cheap NHL Jerseys Free Shipping , were signed by Zimbabwe and China during President Robert Mugabe's visit to China.
"There is appetite to do business in Zimbabwe on the basis of a concrete political friendship between the two countries," Chinamasa said. "So we want to exploit that friendship commercially."
Chinamasa said the Zimbabwean government had agreed with China's state insurer China Export and Credit Insurance Corporation, SINOSURE, on a framework that will enable Zimbabwe's private sector to access funding from both state and non-state Chinese financial institutions Cheap NHL Jerseys From China , including the Export and Import Bank of China (China Exim Bank), China Development Bank, and Industrial and Commercial Bank of China.
A delegation from Sinosure was expected in Zimbabwe next week to follow up on the issue, the minister said.
Chinamasa said some of the cooperation agreements signed include a 290-million-U.S.-dollars loan for the network upgrading of Zimbabwean state telecom company NetOne. The project is undertaken by Chinese telecom giant Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. with the loan Cheap NHL Jerseys China , on preferential terms, being provided by China Exim Bank.
The finance minister said another loan worth 98 million U.S. dollars was promised for fiber optic network expansion by state fixed telephone operator TelOne.
The government-to-government deals also include a 150-million- yuan (or 24 million U.S. dollars) grant for development of social infrastructure in resettlement areas, procurement of locomotives for the railway company, digitalization of state broadcaster Cheap NHL Jerseys , food aid and irrigation infrastructure for about 20,000 hectares of land and rehabilitation of the state grain procurer.
China and Zimbabwe built strong ties during Zimbabwe's liberation struggle and over the years the two countries have managed to maintain this cordial relationship.
In recent years, China has emerged as Zimbabwe's top source of foreign direct investment. Chinese businesses are involved in mining, manufacturing Cheap Jerseys Wholesale , agriculture, and infrastructure developments.
Zimbabwe's economy is projected to grow by 3.1 percent in 2014, the slowest pace in the past four years, officials say Cheap Jerseys Online , explaining that new external funding is key to kick-start the ailing economy before the government can manage to pay off the debt.
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