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Former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard said that same-sex marriage would be inevitable in the country. Gillard was against equal marriage when she served her tenure between 2010 and 2013.

Gillard told Channel Nine that she had an "old-fashioned" view about marriage. "I accept the course of human history now is that we are going to see same-sex marriage here and in, you know, most parts of the developed world," she said, "I've got what may be in the modern age a kind of old-fashioned, feminist view about, can we take the traditional institution of marriage and stretch it? Or do you create some other way of solemnising relationships and recognising them as of worth and status?"

The proposal of same-sex marriage was rejected by the senate by 41-26 and by the House of Representatives by 98-42. Gillard was the prime minister during that time. However, her recent interview revealed her belief that same-sex marriage would become a law eventually in Australia, Pink News reported. While Gillard has always been an open critic of same-sex marriage as she believes in the traditional man-woman matrimony, she has apparently had a change of heart regarding the matter.

Present Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott also believes in what Gillard preached during her tenure. However, Gillard said that she had realised that things had changed over time. Australian Marriage Equality's Rodney Croome asked Labor MPs to listen to what Gillard said. "I urge those Labor MPs who continue to be conflicted about marriage equality to consider Julia Gillard's comments and ensure they are on the right side of history when marriage equality is next voted on," Croome said, He said that equality and choice were two main feminist principles which Gillard had lost sight of when she opposed marriage equality. He also hoped that those factors were back in to focus.

Liberal Democratic Party senator David Leyonhjelm is scheduled to put the same-sex marriage bill on the notice paper for the present Parliament sitting. The Labor party, which is presently the opposition, is expected to support the bill later in 2014. The ruling party, on the contrary, may not agree yet to support the bill.

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