In this piece, former WA Premier Geoff Gallop argues that liberal values lead naturally to supporting marriage equality, and that it’s time for discrimination to end.
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Debates over what it means to be an Australian citizen have been at the heart of our politics since the creation of the Commonwealth at the beginning of the 20th century.
For a large part of the past century, we defined ourselves in racial (white) and cultural (British) terms. Our restrictive immigration policy and discriminatory political system were defended as necessary supports for a democratic and progressive civilisation.
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