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Merav Michaeli’s marriage feud with Liberal senator Zed Seselja on Q&A

Liberal senator Zed Seselja came under sustained fire on Q&A by a member of Israel’s Zionist Union party as Australia’s marriage equality debate took an unexpected turn.

Merav Michaeli refused to hold back on her strongly held views on marriage – that being, no marriage at all.

“It [marriage] was created back at the time when we women were commodities, as were children, as were men without property and of other colours,” she said.

“This is not something that we should maintain in the world when we realise all of us are human beings.

“It is not about love … This was a tool that was made to dominate women for the sake of reproduction.

“This is not something we should sustain.”

 

Read the full article by Alana Mitchelson at The New Daily.