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“My Instagram direct messages have blown up with people I have never met – I don’t know who [they] are – just sending love and congratulations. It’s really touching… Equality where we can get married is a huge step forward for Australia.
– Australian athlete Luke Sullivan, 23, who married his boyfriend Craig Burns, 29, just after midnight on 9 January 2018 in a ceremony in New South Wales. The couple became one of the first legally married same-sex couples in Australia.