Malcolm Turnbull has started wooing the gay community, pledging to remove discrimination in campaign material distributed in the pink suburbs Darlinghurst, Paddington and Potts Point last weekend, the Sydney Star Observer reports. The Wentworth MP told residents there were still a number of legal and financial rights not available to same-sex couples.

“That is not fair and since my election I have sought to address and overcome this discrimination,” Turnbull said.

“I pledge to continue this fight until justice is done.”

As the Star Observer says, the move makes him the sole senior Government figure to publicly stand on the side of reforms. Warren Entsch, the Far North Queensland MP who has led the push for same-s-x rights in the Liberal Party, promised to continue to push for the cause once he retires in his valedictory speech earlier this week.

“I am a little disappointed I have not been able to achieve as much as I would have liked, but I will keep working on that,” Entsch said.

“This is not a morals issue; it is a social justice issue – and it is one that I will continue to push. Hopefully we will get some changes on that in the not too distant future.”

The Government, however, blocked an attempt by Democrat Senator Andrew Murray to remove same-sex discrimination in tax laws during debate in the Senate on Tuesday night.