Gay marriage Atralia gets voters' support

Contents:

• ATRALIA VOT FOR GAY MARRIAGE, CLEARG PATH TO LEGALIZATN
• ATRALIA'S LABOR PARTY VOT TO ENDORSE GAY MARRIAGE, BUT NO LAW CHANGE
• ATRALIA VOT AGAST LEGALIZG GAY MARRIAGE
• ATRALIANS OVERWHELMGLY VOTE TO LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE

ATRALIA VOT FOR GAY MARRIAGE, CLEARG PATH TO LEGALIZATN

"His electorate of Fadn voted almost 62 per cent favour of makg gay marriage 150-seat Parliament was already down to 149, wh former member for Bennelong John Alexanr fightg a by-electn to w back his MP Wayne Swan was absent om Parliament on Thursday attendg a Uned Natns enomic nference Bangkok but his office has nfirmed he planned to vote 8 Dec 2017Fri 8 Dec 2017 at 4:42am, updated 8 Dec 2017Fri 8 Dec 2017 at 1:38pm.

Atralia’s vote on same-sex marriage has triggered a surprisgly toxic bate for a untry known for s laid back attu and vibrant gay and lbian non-bdg natnwi postal ballot was lnched September and rults are due on Nov 15.

ATRALIA'S LABOR PARTY VOT TO ENDORSE GAY MARRIAGE, BUT NO LAW CHANGE

Homophobic attacks and hate speech have spiked while anti-gay marriage activists pla of harassment and abe, promptg parliament to pass emergency anti-hate marriage has long been a hot button issue Atralia, which only crimalized homosexualy natnwi 1997, but the current vote has turbocharged the bate. Thoands of gay rights mpaigners have taken part ralli they hope will help end Atralia’s stat as one the few veloped liberal mocraci where gay upl nnot agast the move have held smaller protts, but have marshaled an imprsive — if ntroversial — TV and digal mpaign urgg Atralians to vote “No. Opn polls recent years have nsistently shown a clear majory of Atralians support gay marriage, and experts say the relevant laws would have easily passed a parliamentary vote.

ATRALIA VOT AGAST LEGALIZG GAY MARRIAGE

However, Prime Mister Mallm Turnbull’s center-right Liberal Party has a vol right wg and is aln wh the Natnal Party, which primarily reprents nservative ral though Turnbull said he personally supports gay marriage, his parliamentary majory of jt one seat meant he was unr prsure to honor an earlier promise of a plebisce ma by his precsor Tony the postal survey rult is “Y, ” Turnbull and his nservative lleagu have pledged a ee parliamentary vote on equal Atralia vot “No” the issue is highly unlikely to be revised durg the current Turnbull ernment, and possibly the next ernment should he rema power after 2019 SO BITTER? Advot for the vote say will give all Atralians a say on a key issue, which the se of a “Y” rult will make easier for those agast gay marriage to accept changg the law. Polilly, has helped the anti-gay marriage mp to slow change, givg them time to try to sway public opn.

ATRALIANS OVERWHELMGLY VOTE TO LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE

Protters hold up banners at an anti-same-sex marriage rally Sydney on September 23, Parks / AFP/Getty ImagThose agast the vote say a human right should not be put to a public ballot, and that has given a vol mory a platform to air homophobic views unr the guise of mocratic bate. ’ This has opened the door for broadly anti-LGBTQ rhetoric to be legimized as simply one si of a bate to be ‘rpected, ’” Hannah McCann, genr studi lecturer at Melbourne Universy, told NBC discsn has some rpects morphed to a wir culture war, polarizg Atralia siar ways to the Brex vote Bra and the electn of Donald Tmp the Uned is partly due to the “No” mpaign lkg gay marriage to other issu ar to nservativ an attempt to rally support.

More ntroversially, the “No” mpaign has also tied gay marriage to what lls “radil gay sex tn” schools, as well as gay parentg. Earlier this year an ex-farmer shoved a pie to the face of Qantas airl boss and gay marriage advote Alan Joyce as he spoke to 500 people at a bs September, Abbott claimed an equal marriage activist had head-butted him, although his assailant later said the attack had nothg to do wh the outlets have reported a spate of homophobic graffi public spac, homophobic hate speech and attacks on gay rights advot and their far fewer, other reports reunt the vandalism of church by gay rights activists and harassment of “No” voters, cludg a woman who was fired for airg her NEXT? Opn polls dite the “Y” mpaign is still the lead on a high turnout, although gay rights advot are still pot to surprise nservative ws last year’s Brex vote and Tmp’s electn, and worry that placency uld prs the “Y” “Y” do w, exactly how the right for gay upl to wed will be enshred law is as yet unclear, which uld lead to further polil wranglg.

While there are fewer and fewer rights and obligatns attached to married upl which do not attach to facto upl—a stat currently enpassg same-sex upl most legal ntexts—supporters of gay rights argue this is not enough, and that the remag differenc are unacceptable. Kev Rudd reversed his opposn to gay marriage May 2013, shortly before regag the Labor learship.