It’s not every day a pair of butchers from Werribee get to bend the ear of a prime minister, but that’s exactly what happened when John Dini, 29, and his partner of nine years, Steve Russell, 51, joined two lesbian couples for dinner at the Lodge.
As reported in CW last month, the couple were invited to meet Prime Minister Julia Gillard by lobby group GetUp! whose members donated $31,000 in order to secure the dinner for six in a charity bid. They were there to discuss Ms Gillard’s stance on gay marriage.