NSW Deputy Premier Carmel Tebbutt has come out in support of marriage equality for all Australians while revealing she supports civil unions as a way of formally recognising same-sex couples under state laws.
The Marrickville MP made the comments in an article which appeared on the Inner West Live website on Monday.
“Marriage is really a matter for the federal Government,” Tebbutt said. “But my private view of things is that if two people love each other, they should be able to express that through marriage and I don’t think we should be putting limits on that.”
Tebbutt stopped short of support for granting same-sex couples the right to marry under state law while the federal Government remains opposed, as has been proposed by the NSW Greens and University of NSW constitutional law expert Professor George Williams, but said she believed civil unions were something the NSW Government had jurisdiction to act on.
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