Centrelink on Same-Sex Relationships

I was checking the Centrelink (Australian social welfare department) website to see if I am going to get some of this economic stimulus money being liberally distributed by the government, and I came across this:

The Government has introduced reforms to remove discrimination to enable same-sex couples and children from same-sex relationships to be recognised by Commonwealth law.

From 1 July 2009 changes to family assistance legislation means that the Family Assistance Office will recognise all couples, regardless of the sexual orientation or gender of a partner.

Customers living in a same-sex de facto relationship will be recognised as partnered and will be assessed in the same way as opposite-sex couples.

See my post "Preaching the Post-Gay-Marriage World", from April, 2005 for my thoughts on that.