11,000 Aussies take PM to task on gay marriage

Questions have been submitted over the past few weeks for Gillard to answer during a PM Hangout session, hosted by Fairfax. The nation was then invited to vote on which questions should be top of the pile. Among the most voted is a question about heterosexual...

Hartcher: They can’t stonewall forever

On same-sex marriage, the leaders of Australia’s biggest political parties are defying the tide of history. What do slavery, wife beating and child labour have in common? All were once mainstream practices in Western countries. Today, they are unacceptable...

Proud dad challenges Gillard on Q&A

This is the moment Vietnam veteran and proud father to a gay son Geoff Thomas addressedPrime Minister Julia Gillard on the hot topic she’d rather went away. Thomas had previously asked opposition leader Tony Abbott about legalising gay marriage back in August 2010,...