Australia s most respected LGBTI news source
Friday 26 April 2013 Issue 1172 | starobserver.
com.
au
Rainbowtick
forhealth
page05
Michael
Kirby
page10
Costumedramas:
Sohotrightnow
page14
Anthony
Callea
page17
It’s our turn nowNational
Alex McKinnon
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Australia s most respected LGBTI news source
Friday 26 April 2013 Issue 1172 | starobserver.
com.
au
Rainbowtick
forhealth
page05
Michael
Kirby
page10
Costumedramas:
Sohotrightnow
page14
Anthony
Callea
page17
It’s our turn nowNational
Alex McKinnon
New Zealand’s legalisation of same-sex
marriage has prompted federal Opposition
Leader Tony Abbott to hint that the
Coalition may be allowed a conscience vote
after the next election.
In a retreat from his previous firm
opposition to a conscience vote, Abbott
told Sky News last week that the Coalition’s
positionongaymarriagewouldbe“amatter
for the post-election party room” and that
he “can’t pretend to bind my party for all
time”.
“I’m not trying to say that the party is
committed forever and a day to the current
position,” Abbott said.
Shadow education minister Christopher
Pyne defended Abbott’s position but
similarly hinted that the Coalition’s policy
could change later in the year.
“In the next parliament we haven’t got a
clear policy
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