PRIME Minister Julia Gillard has told three same-sex couples she believes laws allowing them to marry in Australia are inevitable.
Ms Gillard and partner Tim Mathieson hosted the couples at The Lodge last night. She told them the growing number of countries legislating in favour of the issue is placing increasing pressure on politicians to support reform.
Sydney brothers Matthew Miller, 12, and Dylan Miller, 9, escorted their mothers, Sandy Miller and Louise Bucke, to the Lodge to provide their argument for legalising same-sex marriage.
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Ms Miller and Ms Burke have been a couple for four years and engaged for two and their eldest child said he was tired of waiting for the day he could watch them formally tie the knot.
”I don’t know really why I am here,” Matthew said. ”To me, it is simple and this argument should have been settled long ago. People should be allowed to marry the person they love and to be accepted by all society.”
His brother, Dylan, has written to Ms Gillard previously pleading for her to legalise same-sex marriage and said he wanted to deliver the message in person.
”I just want her to have a think how much it would hurt her if she couldn’t marry the person she loves most in the whole world,” he said.
Ms Miller said after the dinner that the Prime Minister was open and generous with her time, but added that Ms Gillard was careful to state that she had not changed her position on same-sex marriage.
”It was a very positive discussion and it gives me hope for the future,” Ms Miller said.
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