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Australian PM to host dinner for gay couples

Australia's Prime Minister will host a dinner for three gay couples who advocate same-sex marriage, this summer.

Peter Lloyd

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 15:20:54 GMT | Updated 2 years today

It comes after lobby group GetUp paid $31,000 for the privilege at a recent charity auction for the Canberra Press Gallery.

The couples plan to convince anti-gay Gillard that marriage equality is a civil right.

The trio include Sandy Miller and her fiancee Louise Bucke, who have been waiting for over two years to get married in their homeland.

Speaking to the Sydney Morning Herald Miller said: "Our youngest often asks us, `Mummies, are you going to be engaged forever? Why don't you get married?'.

 

"It has been hard trying to explain that our government won't let us get married, and he doesn't understand why everyone else can get married and become a family legally and we can't.

 

"We don't want to be considered special or better than anyone else. We only want the same rights as every other person and couple in Australia."

 

GetUp said it used surplus funds from its marriage equality campaign to pay for the event.

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