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Premier
honour
Queensland
Elias...
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Premier
honour
Queensland
Elias Jahshan
ANNA Bligh can still recall with clarity the
day she moved a simple amendment, in
her then-portforlio as Queensland Family
Minister in 1998, to allow those in samesex relationships to be protected by the
same domestic violence laws as their
heterosexualcounterparts.
“Iwasaveryjuniorministerandmoving
an amendment that I thought was very
simple and in fact quite uncontroversial,”
shesaid.
“ButIwasvery,verywrong.TheNational
Party was particularly outraged. It was also
atatimewhenQueenslandParliamentwas
home to 11 members of One Nation Party,
sobetweenthemtherewaswhatIdescribe
asatotallyhystericalresponse.Thebodyof
the debate was appalling, it was senseless
anditbecamevery,veryheated.
“It culminated with one member of the
National Party
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