South Australian Labor MLC Gerry Kandelaars has used his maiden speech to call for marriage equality and changes to the state’s IVF laws to allow lesbian access.
Kandelaars said his lesbian daughter Katie and her partner Simone should be legally allowed to marry.
“In the eyes of the law, they are second-class citizens, which they are certainly not,” Kandelaars told Parliament yesterday.
to read Mr Kandelaars’s press release.