Heartbreak, Humiliation and a Death Certificate

Posted on January 23, 2016 
Filed under Opinion, Resources

Assoc Prof Neil Foster“‘Heartbreak and humiliation’ were the opening words of the current affairs show ‘The 7:30 Report’ on the national public broadcaster, the ABC, on Thursday Friday 21, 2016. The story? The tragic accidental death of David Bulmer-Rizzi, one member of a UK same sex couple who were visiting the country.

The tragedy was compounded, the report said, by the fact that the South Australian authorities were proposing to issue a death certificate which stated that the deceased was ‘never married’. But the couple had entered into a same sex marriage under UK law…”

– At Law and Religion Australia, Neil Foster provides the legal context behind some of the media reporting surrounding a tragic death.