Prominent Yes campaigner Christine Forster said she expects the former Prime Minister to follow through on what he told her, in a radio interview with KIIS101.1 today.

“He rang me yesterday, not long after the result and we had a chat,” she told the station.

“And, he and I are very much in agreement that this needs to get through parliament quickly.

“(Abstaining) is not opposing it and it’s not making it harder to get through parliament. What we need to see now is leadership from our parliamentarians.”

The news comes after conflicting reports of how Mr Abbott would vote.

The Warringah MP told 2GB he would “not frustrate the will of the public” after 75 per cent of his constituency cast their ballots in favour of gay marriage.

While stopping short of saying he would vote for a bill legalising same-sex marriage, Mr Abbott said he “intends to facilitate” one, while insisting it must have protections for freedom of religion, conscience, and parental choice.

“This whole idea of a plebiscite was mine, originally,” Mr Abbott said in the interview. “I think the result now should be respected — respected by the community, respected by the parliament.”

Despite his sister looking to marry her partner, Virginia Edwards, next year, Mr Abbott has been one of the loudest voices against same-sex marriage.

In today’s KIIS101.1 interview Ms Forster said, despite differences in opinion, family relationships transcend politics.

“‘I can live with him now that we’ve won,” she joked. “We’re both grown ups.”

“We agree to disagree on some things and we go about our business accordingly.

She said you couldn’t put a price on yesterday’s result, especially after a “difficult and long campaign”.

“What the Australian people have done, is to say to all young gay people, ‘you have the opportunities, you have the same futures and you have the same rights as anybody else’,” she said.

“It’s been a magnificent gesture of respect and love from this great country of ours and it’s been a fantastic thing.”

Off the back of yesterday’s historic vote, Ms Forster now said she will marry her partner in Australia next year.

Early this year, before the $122 million same-sex marriage survey became a reality, a desperate Ms Forster and Ms Edwards decided they could wait no longer for a law change.

“I said to Virginia: ‘I’ll renew my British passport and we’ll go and get married in the British consulate’,” Ms Forster said.

It was “an act of desperation”. “We’d always wanted to marry in Sydney and the laws didn’t look like changing,” she said.

The pair set a February 2018 wedding date. A couple of months later, after “nothing happening on this issue at all, it was suddenly brought to a head with the survey”.

If the law change happens quickly, Ms Forster and Ms Edwards will be among the first to lodge their 30 days notice to marry under Australian law. They may even get to keep their original wedding date.

“Hopefully the legislation will go through before Parliament rises in 2017, in which case we have just enough time to give notice and get married as planned in February, but under Australian law,” Forster said.

“It’s going to be a close-run thing. It’s all booked but we have the venue and all involved on notice that if we have to push it back a month or so.

“We may be among the first. As soon as the law passes people will start giving notice, and that’s what we will do.”