Gay British husband's partner dies Adelaide, marriage not recognised - Australia

*Update: the South Australia Premier has apologised and will issue a new death certificate when new legislation passes in the state parliament.

This will likely have a big effect on gays holidaying in Australia and the tourist industry here. In particular South Australia, as the State of South Australia still doesn't recognise overseas same sex marriages, unlike NSW where David and I are.

So, the married same sex couple are on holiday in Adelaide and one of them tragically dies in an accident. It's already widely known about the fuckwits in Canberra dragging the chain on same sex marriage, but not so South Australia, who still don't regonise overseas same sex marriages. 

Which lead to the following:

Marco Bulmer-Rizzi’s voice is quiet and steady on the phone from Australia as he tries to stay composed – to explain what has happened, the magnitude of what he has lost, and the sense of injustice he feels. 

Last Saturday, while on honeymoon in Adelaide, South Australia, his new husband David Bulmer-Rizzi, 32, died suddenly after falling down a staircase and cracking his skull at the home of the friends they were visiting. Both are British citizens, but because same-sex marriage is not recognised in Australia, and in the state of South Australia even same-sex marriages from overseas are not legally recognised, Bulmer-Rizzi, 38, was told that his husband’s death certificate will state two words under the deceased’s marital status: “never married”. 

And because Bulmer-Rizzi is therefore not recognised as the next of kin, all the decisions surrounding his husband’s death have had to be approved by his father-in-law, Nigel Bulmer. Also speaking to BuzzFeed News, Bulmer, 60, said: “It’s degrading. It demeans my son’s memory and denies their relationship. It’s cast them as second-class citizens. No one should ever have to go through what we’ve gone through. We’re at the bottom and somebody has dug a deeper pit.” 

Grieving for his husband but determined to speak out about what has happened, Bulmer-Rizzi called on the British government to intervene, because, he said, in the eyes of the Australian government: “I’m nothing.” Buzz Feed

I can't describe how frustrated and angry I am at the lack of representational performance of Australia's politicians. These two men were the guests of Australia, and now look what we've done to them.