Australia’s leading gay and lesbian newspaper Est.
1979 www.
starobserver.
com.
au Issue 1065 Wednesday 23 March 2011
Marriage equality
un-Australian: GillardANDREW M.
POTTS
Prime Minister Julia Gillard has declared
that marriage rights for same-sex...
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Australia’s leading gay and lesbian newspaper Est.
1979 www.
starobserver.
com.
au Issue 1065 Wednesday 23 March 2011
Marriage equality
un-Australian: GillardANDREW M.
POTTS
Prime Minister Julia Gillard has declared
that marriage rights for same-sex couples
are incompatible with Australian culture
and heritage one day after hundreds
demanded their rights in Sydney and
Brisbane.
“I do find myself on the conservative
side in this question … because of the way
oursocietyisandhowwegothere,”Gillard
toldSkyNewsonSunday.
“Therearesome
importantthingsfromourpastthatneedto
continue to be part of our present and part
ofourfuture.
”
When asked if she was expressing
a personal view or what she thought
Australians wanted to hear, Gillard said
she would have said the same thing had
sheneverenteredpolitics,pitchingherself
asasocialconservative.
“I had a pro-union pro-Labor
upbringing in a quite conservative family
in the sense of personal values,” Gillard
said.
“If I was in a different walk of li
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