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Opposition leader Bill Shorten has defended Labor’s intention to legalise marriage equality and denied the government’s claim he may be a dual citizen in a wide-ranging television interview.
Appearing solo on Q&A last night, Shorten replied to a question about his citizenship status by noting that “Barack Obama had to produce his birth certificate and then they said it was a fake. Some people are never going to be satisfied”. On the same-sex marriage postal vote, Shorten empathised with a member of the studio audience who had the word “FAGS” scratched into his front door, recounting abusive messages his office has received since the postal vote was announced and saying: “One way or the other, we’re going to have marriage equality in Australia”.
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Alex McKinnon, The Saturday Paper
