E manatua e le fa'amasino, le sa avea ma faamasino i le faamasinog maualuga, le High Court i Ausetalia, le Afioga Justice Michael Kirby, le tulaga faigata na feagai ma ia ae o tuputupua'e i Ausetalia i le 1970.
Na ia fa'aalia, pe ana ia fa'ailoa le mea moni o ia e gay, e matua leai ma se avanoa e avea ai o ia ma loia ma faamasino i le faamasinoga aupito maualuga i Ausetalia.
"There were no openly LGBTIQ people in federal parliament or in public life. It was an oppressive law which was enforced. And every week or so, on the front page of the evening newspapers, were stories about LGBT people who had been entrapped by police and humiliated and denounced. And by and large, most members of the public went along with that and they thought gay people were an abomination."
Na ia ta'ua, o le manumalo o le Labor i palota o le 1972 na tula'i mai ai le faigamalo a le palemia Gough Whitlam ma suia atoa ai le silasila a le atunuu i Ausetalia nei i aia tatau a tagata - e pei o tagata muamua, itupa o fafine ma tamaita'i, ma aia tatau a tagata o isi lanu e le o ni papalagi.
"It was a kind of signature theme that Australia would not really make progress on a lot of social issues and a lot of backward approaches to women's rights, to Indigenous First Nations people rights, the rights of people of color in an era of white Australia. All of these things were really with LGBT rights blocked because there was somewhat conservative government. And it was when that government fell on the 2nd of December, 1972, that with the advent of the Whitlam labor government and the creation of the Law Reform Commission and other bodies, a lot of change started to happen."
O le tausaga 2019 na fa'aipoipo ai Michael Kirby i lana pa'aga o Johan van Vloten, ua 56 tausaga o le la mafutaga fa'aulugalii.
"The thing I've learned over the 55 years that we've been together, 56 years, is that you have to have one partner who gives in. In any relationship there are battles and there are disagreements and sometimes very strong disagreements. But if you want the thing to work, you've got to have one of the partners who will always give in because they look at the broader picture and they conclude that winning on a particular little issue is less important than continuing a loving relationship."
