Let's now add to the list of places that are now more advanced than we are... Slovenia.
What's wrong with Slovenia? I find this post offensive (you seem to think that your country is more ...civilized than Slovenia and you're therefore surprised they have more progressive laws than you do).
I doubt he meant anything sinister by it; to test this, I told a number of friends that Slovenia had just legalised same-sex marriage and all of them said the same thing, nearly verbatim.
The level of frustration among the younger population towards the Australian government regarding this issue is, indeed, a mirror image to that of other countries. It's a slight against our federal MPs more than a comment regarding Slovenia.