Easter is shaping up as a nice time for a green wedding, write ViscountBrooky and SHutchinsonNews | CBD auspol
Two days on from Valentine’s Day and we’ve still got that loving feeling thanks to political sweethearts, executive director of progressive think tank The Australia Institute. The political pair, who have been dating for more than two years, have just revealed they are engaged.
Turns out, Oquist is a hopeless romantic. He unexpectedly sought Hanson-Young’s hand in marriage in the middle of her 40th birthday celebrations – a lunch with her nearest and dearest on Kangaroo Island. Oquist has also worked with the European Greens and was once memorably ejected from a UN event by then US secretary of statefor staging a protest mid-speech by unfurling an environmental banner. He joined the Australia Institute in 2014 and became its boss a year later. The pair have more to talk about than policy, Hanson-Young insists.
“We really just wanted to not have it drag out and to just get it done as soon as we could and Easter seemed like a good time,” she said. “So we’re going ahead with it then, and it will just be a nice wedding with our closest friends and family.”
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