FORMER Greens leader Bob Brown will use a farewell dinner with Julia Gillard at The Lodge to lobby her on the need to legislate for same-sex marriage.
The veteran parliamentarian, who announced earlier this month he would step down as party leader and leave the Senate, will have dinner at the Prime Minister’s Canberra residence with his long-term partner Paul Thomas in the next fortnight.
In a candid interview with the ABC’s Q&A program last night, Senator Brown discussed the trauma of coming to terms with his homosexuality in his teenage years, including his experience with electro-shock therapy.