Kylie Minogue won’t get married until Australia makes same-sex marriage legal

Kylie Minogue has said that she won’t marry fiancé Joshua Sasse until Australia changes its marriage equality laws.

The pop star, 48, who announced her engagement to the British actor earlier this year, will not walk down the aisle until her home country makes same-sex marriage legal.

Minogue and Sasse, who are keen to wed in Melbourne, have launched the ‘Say I Do Down Under’ campaign in a bid to promote marriage equality.

“When I found out that gay marriage was illegal in Australia, I was astounded,” said Sasse.

“I simply can’t fathom on any level, whether it’s moral or religious or anything, that I have the right to get married and to marry the person that I love and that somebody else doesn’t because of their sexual orientation."

Minogue has described the country’s stance on marriage rights as ‘backward’, saying that ‘the world hasn’t’ caved in’ in countries where it has been made legal.

The government is expected to put the marriage equality issue to a public vote in February next year.

A forthcoming marriage announcement was placed in Daily Telegraph beneath the names Mr JS von Sasse and Miss KA Minogue earlier this year.

It read: "The engagement is announced between Joshua, son of the late Dominic Sasse and of Mary Heale (nee Macauley), of Herefordshire, and Kylie, eldest daughter of Ronald and Carol Minogue, of Melbourne, Australia.”

Minogue met the actor, who is 20 years her junior, in September last year.