Marriage: a new era - and its unlikely hero

By Amanda Hooton
Updated December 15 2017 - 10:33am, first published 10:29am

It takes a long time to get anywhere in Parliament House, either physically or philosophically. Every day seems to involve endless trekking down wide, white, art-and sculpture-filled corridors; every conversation feels as if you're navigating an ideological labyrinth from which you may never emerge alive.