Peter Lindsay (Herbert, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

The member for Fowler, Mrs Irwin, and the member for Canberra, Ms Ellis, will likely know that I am very much on the public record as supporting civil unions. So it distresses me that the government has taken the action that it has, but it effectively had to, and I will tell you why I think it did. The words from the act that the member for Canberra quoted, linking civil unions to marriage, were extraordinarily provocative. That is the problem. I think Jon Stanhope actually decided to put those words in there to make the Commonwealth government reject the legislation.

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