Other local gay media have tried and failed to get an interview with Australia’s new Prime Minister on the gay marriage issue – but it took a quick-thinking young Same Samer to get results. “This morning 2dayFM was taking calls to ask Julia Gillard a question, I took the opportunity to call through (took a few attempts but I got through) and my question was ‘what is her view on same sex marriage, and would she consider legalising it?’” typed 20-year-old Tatsuya on our Forum today.

“This is the frank answer, we’d got very clear Labor party policy on this and it won’t be changing – that we believe the marriage act is appropriate in its current form, that it’s recognising that marriage is between a man and a woman, but we have as a government taken steps to equalise treatment for gay couples, in the things that government does in social security benefits and the like.”

Pressed for her personal views on the issue by the show’s co-host Jackie O, Gillard stood firm. “Look, that is my view, I think that’s where we’re at as a community now, and I think it’s appropriate that for these very sensitive issues that we’re reflecting community views.”

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Julia Gillard will become Australia’s first female prime minister after Kevin Rudd decided not to take part in a leadership ballot this morning.

The change in leadership was decided shortly after 9am this morning after Rudd stood aside to avoid defeat rather than face off with Gillard in the leadership ballot.

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In an interview with Sky News political editor David Speers in July last year, Gillard made her feelings on same-sex marriage clear. “The Government’s position is very clear that marriage is marriage between a man and a woman,” Gillard told Speers at the time. Further questioning from Speers prompted Gillard to reveal her personal view on same-sex marriage was the same as the government’s standpoint.

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