<p>Tim Mathieson, a former hairdresser who is known as Australia's 'First Bloke', said he would like to tie the knot one day with the 49-year-old.<br /><br />"I would like to ask her," he was quoted as saying by Sunday Herald Sun, but said that he was in no hurry.<br /><br />At the same time, Mathieson, who has been married before and has three children, said he has not yet discussed his plan with country's first female Prime Minister.<br /><br />"At the moment I'm really quite happy with our relationship the way it is. Like Julia, I don't think we need to be cemented in any other way. We're just happy with the way we are, but I would hope if I did ask her that, of course, she would say yes. Absolutely. It's a natural thing," he said.<br /><br />However, Gillard, 49, who has never married before, has played down the suggestions of an imminent wedding, saying she has no present plans to marry her partner Mathieson.<br />"There is no rock on the finger, so I think everybody can say we're a happy couple and that's a good thing," she told ABC Television.<br /><br />No Australian prime minister has ever married while in office.</p>
<p>Tim Mathieson, a former hairdresser who is known as Australia's 'First Bloke', said he would like to tie the knot one day with the 49-year-old.<br /><br />"I would like to ask her," he was quoted as saying by Sunday Herald Sun, but said that he was in no hurry.<br /><br />At the same time, Mathieson, who has been married before and has three children, said he has not yet discussed his plan with country's first female Prime Minister.<br /><br />"At the moment I'm really quite happy with our relationship the way it is. Like Julia, I don't think we need to be cemented in any other way. We're just happy with the way we are, but I would hope if I did ask her that, of course, she would say yes. Absolutely. It's a natural thing," he said.<br /><br />However, Gillard, 49, who has never married before, has played down the suggestions of an imminent wedding, saying she has no present plans to marry her partner Mathieson.<br />"There is no rock on the finger, so I think everybody can say we're a happy couple and that's a good thing," she told ABC Television.<br /><br />No Australian prime minister has ever married while in office.</p>