Tony Pasin (Barker, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Yesterday, I gave a radio interview to Stan Thomson of ABC SouthEastSA based in Mount Gambier. A story about that interview was posted on the station's website yesterday afternoon and the station's Facebook page linked to that story earlier today. The Facebook link states:

Liberal Member for Barker Tony Pasin has said he would not support a change to legislation on the issue of same sex marriage and said the majority of his electorate has told him they agree.

The overwhelming majority of comments attracted by that post have negatively reacted to me allegedly claiming to have spoken to the majority of my electors. In actual fact, what I said in the interview was:

An overwhelming majority of people who have approached me on this issue have asked me to confirm the position as the traditional definition.

I trust this allays the concerns of people who have been offended by the misreporting of my comments.

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