AAP IMAGE OUTLOOK FOR TUESDAY FEBRUARY 17, 2009

AAP General News (Australia)
02-17-2009
AAP IMAGE OUTLOOK FOR TUESDAY FEBRUARY 17, 2009
Good morning Picture Editors, News Editors and Chiefs of Staff,

This is a list of AAP's planned photographic coverage for today. This is a guide only
and coverage is subject to change.

AAP Picture desk can be contacted on (02) 9322 8707.

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AAP IMAGE OUTLOOK FOR TUESDAY FEBRUARY 17, 2009

SYDNEY
Community Cabinet Meeting - COMMUNITY CABINET MEETING SYDNEY
World Premiere of The Combination - THE COMBINATION PREMIERE

MELBOURNE
Australian Olympians visit the Victorian bushfire region of Kinglake - BUSHFIRES VIC
Victorian police who helped Marysville residents evacuate during bushfire speak about
their experience in Alexandra - BUSHFIRES VIC
Fosters Group Interim Results - FOSTERS GROUP RESULTS
Court hearing for a man charged for a second time with stealing cash collection tin for
bushfire victims - BUSHFIRES VIC CHARITY THEFT CHARGES

BRISBANE
Jayant Patel committal hearing with witness, nurse Toni Hoffman - JAYANT PATEL COURT BRISBANE

CANBERRA
Australian of the year Professor Mick Dodson speaking at the Press Club - MICK DODSON PRESS CLUB

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FED:Abbott tips anti-gay marriage line to stay

AAP General News (Australia)
12-06-2011
FED:Abbott tips anti-gay marriage line to stay

By Andrea Hayward

CANBERRA, Dec 6 AAP - Coalition MPs may have to cross the floor to exercise a conscience
vote, with Opposition Leader Tony Abbott indicating the coalition will hold the party
line against gay marriage.

Liberal frontbencher Malcolm Turnbull has asked Mr Abbott to allow coalition MPs a
conscience vote.

"My view is there should be a conscience vote," he told ABC Radio on Tuesday.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard has also appealed to Mr Abbott to allow a conscience vote
on the issue when a private member's bill is presented to the parliament with the aim
of changing the Marriage Act early next year.

"For some people this is about their most deeply-held aspirations for their own lives,"

she told reporters in Canberra.

For some people it was about their religious convictions.

"I think it's appropriate people should speak from their hearts," the prime minister said.

Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young said Mr Abbott should allow a conscience vote to
avoid having some coalition MPs cross the floor.

"It's up to Tony, would he prefer to see them cross the floor or will he grant them
a free vote," she said.

"The ball's in his court."

In contrast to Mr Turnbull, who says he is keeping an open mind on the issue, Mr Abbott
said on Tuesday his view remained unchanged and he would always support the traditional
position on marriage.

"Second point I make is that my sense of my party colleagues is that there will be
very strong majority support for the traditional position," Mr Abbott told reporters in
Perth.

Mr Abbott would not be drawn on his conversation with Mr Turnbull on the issue.

"I don't talk about the content of conversations but I am very confident that we will
manage this issue as we have always managed it in the tradition of the Liberal Party,"

he said.

"There's a sense in which every vote that our party takes is a conscience vote because
we don't take disciplinary action against people who make their own judgments about these
matters."

Mr Turnbull said he would most likely make his position clear in parliament as to how
he would vote on the issue.

"I've not said that I would vote in favour of it, I've never advocated gay marriage
in the past," he told reporters in Melbourne.

"When I state my position on this legislation it will be when the legislation is presented
and I'll state my position and vote in accordance with that position, subject to whether
we have a conscience vote or not, and make my reasons at the time.

"I'm very committed to ensuring that there is no discrimination against same sex couples
in terms of their legal rights.

"There will be a big debate on this issue and I think it's important for all of us
to encourage all members of parliament to keep an open mind on this issue, and to talk
to their communities, listen to their communities, engage with them and to judge the strength
of the arguments pros and con."

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