WORLD champion axeman David Foster may not be a likely poster boy for gay rights.

However, these days the prominent North-West Tasmanian is just as happy to be championing same-sex marriage as he is woodchopping.

The reason? His daughter Sally, her partner Lily and their daughter Wren, who soon turns one.

Foster will speak on Tuesday in support of same-sex marriage at a forum in Hobart – something he admits would not have happened before Sally sat down with him and his wife Jan four years ago.

for more coverage.

for more about the forum in Hobart on 13 September.

for the TGLRG’s press release on David Foster.
for the Tasmanian Greens’ press release on Foster.