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Labor divided on marriageNational
Alex McKinnon...
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Australia s most respected LGBTI news source
Friday 11 October 2013 | Issue 1196 | starobserver.
com.
au
MEET JILL SCOTT PAGE 14GAY PRESS INQUIRY PAGE 09 MONGOLIAN PRIDE PAGE 10TASMANIAN EQUALITY PAGE 05
Labor divided on marriageNational
Alex McKinnon
Senior Labor figures are divided on the
question of whether the party should
change its position on same-sex marriage,
with a growing number of politicians and
party elders calling for a conscience vote to
be abandoned in favour of full support for
marriage equality.
The division comes after AWU national
secretary and senior Labor powerbroker
Paul Howes openly called for the party
to adopt same-sex marriage as binding
policy in a speech to the Future of Marriage
Equality Forum last week, saying that he
had erred in pushing for a conscience vote
at the 2012 ALP National Conference and
that Labor should fully support same-sex
marriage as “a matter of basic social justice”.
“I am hopeful that many others like me
who mistakenly supported a
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