southern
Australia’s leading gay and lesbian newspaper Est.
2008 www.
starobserver.
com.
au Issue 143 Thursday 14 July 2011
Gaga pushes Gillard on marriage
Pollies
to push
our cause
A tripartisan federal parliamentary group
established by Coalition MP...
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southern
Australia’s leading gay and lesbian newspaper Est.
2008 www.
starobserver.
com.
au Issue 143 Thursday 14 July 2011
Gaga pushes Gillard on marriage
Pollies
to push
our cause
A tripartisan federal parliamentary group
established by Coalition MP Warren
Entsch to deal with ‘forgotten’ LGBTI
issues has been broadly welcomed by the
community.
In what’s being hailed as an Australian
first, Entsch announced the formation of
the Parliamentary Friendship Group for
LGBTIAustralians(PFLGBTIA),whichhas
the support of Labor MP Graham Perrett
andGreensSenatorSarahHanson-Young.
Entsch,whowillchairthegroup,saidthe
movewillofferLGBTIAustraliansachance
tohaveasayonissuesotherthansame-sex
marriage.
“This has not been set up as a platform
to push marriage,” Entsch told the Star
Observer.
“It’s all been about gay marriage in
recent times.
If I just looked in the media,
I’d think nothing else happens .
.
.
but
there are serious issues out there that
people are actually dying because of.
“The
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