THE Labor Party must change its policy platform to at least allow a conscience vote on gay marriage if it is to rejuvenate its flagging membership and modernise, the party’s national president, Jenny McAllister says.
Ms McAllister was commenting yesterday as sources confirmed the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, would express a preference for a conscience vote rather than full legalisation of gay marriage, before the issue is debated at Labor’s national conference in December.
