Gay marriage proved a headache for Julia Gillard at her party’s conference in December. But in the current climate, she just might be relieved to talk on a subject that doesn’t involve her foreign minister.

She’ll get the chance tonight when she hosts three same-sex couples at The Lodge, the upshot of an auction of six tickets for dinner with the Prime Minister that were bought by the activist group GetUp last year at the Canberra press gallery’s last mid-winter ball.

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Further coverage: here and here.

AME’s media statement here.