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class="_1dFpl">Save</span></button><div class="G-AXw _3Xjsv" id="articleToolsLogTooltip" role="tooltip"><div class="_3sIJa" data-ttid="SaveArticle-tooltip"><button class="__V_M" type="button">Log </button> or <a class="_3NFfI" data-ttid="SaveArticle-subscribeLk" href=">Subscribe</a> to save article</div></div></div><div class="_332VY" data-ttid="ArticleSocialShare"><button class="_1whEj _3jOVc" data-ttid="ArticleSocialShare-buttonShare" type="button"><span class="_1cmVb _1hJaj"><svg class="_1SIxy" focable="false" height="1em" aria-hidn="te" width="1em"><e xlk:href="#in-share"></e></svg></span><span class="_35K">Share</span></button></div></div></sectn></sectn><div class="_1YPgH"><div class="tl7wu"><p>What uld the feral ernment spend taxpayers' money on stead of holdg a standalone pulsory plebisce on same sex marriage?</p><p>The Abbott ernment will have a plebisce on same-sex marriage but has not cid when to hold the vote.</p><p>The Atralian Electoral Commissn mollg showed a standalone plebisce on same sex marriage would st taxpayers $158.4 ln.</p><figure class="gzJMC unfed NvmVw" data-pb-type="im"><picture><source media="(m-width: 1180px)" width="620" height="349" srcSet="width_620%2C$height_349/t_crop_fill%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/b16d6b55af79694719949d9dc7301620d5bb8e, width_1240%2C$height_698/t_crop_fill%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/b16d6b55af79694719949d9dc7301620d5bb8e 2x" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":1.777778,"type":"landspe16x9","width":620,"urls":["width_620%2C$height_349/t_crop_fill%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/b16d6b55af79694719949d9dc7301620d5bb8e"," width_1240%2C$height_698/t_crop_fill%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/b16d6b55af79694719949d9dc7301620d5bb8e 2x"]}"/><source media="(m-width: 1020px)" width="620" height="349" srcSet="width_620%2C$height_349/t_crop_fill%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/b16d6b55af79694719949d9dc7301620d5bb8e, width_1240%2C$height_698/t_crop_fill%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/b16d6b55af79694719949d9dc7301620d5bb8e 2x" 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srcSet="width_382%2C$height_215/t_crop_fill%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/b16d6b55af79694719949d9dc7301620d5bb8e, width_764%2C$height_430/t_crop_fill%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/b16d6b55af79694719949d9dc7301620d5bb8e 2x" siz="(max-width: 767px) 382px" data-id="b16d6b55af79694719949d9dc7301620d5bb8e" data-pb-im-nfig="{"aspectRat":1.777778,"type":"landspe16x9","width":382,"urls":["width_382%2C$height_215/t_crop_fill%2Cq_88%2Cf_to/b16d6b55af79694719949d9dc7301620d5bb8e"," width_764%2C$height_430/t_crop_fill%2Cq_52%2Cf_to/b16d6b55af79694719949d9dc7301620d5bb8e 2x"]}" width="382" height="215"/></picture><figptn class="LuHig"><p>AEC mollg shows a standalone plebisce would st $158.4 ln and a plebisce alongsi the next general feral electn, $44.0 ln.<!-- --> <ce class="_23SOU">Hagen Hopks</ce></p></figptn></figure><p>If a plebisce were held alongsi the next general feral electn, would st $44 ln to ver the addnal temporary staff, ballot paper and tn and promotn materials.</p><p>In parison, the 2013 general feral electn st taxpayers $139.6 ln, excludg public fundg.</p></div></div><asi class="_3JfHJ"></asi><div class="ZAfSI"><div class="adWrapper _3XglG Hqxcp" data-ttid="ad-wrapper"><div class="" id="adspot-320x360_320x50_300x250_300x50-pos2-mobile"></div><div class="" id="adspot-728x90-pos2-tablet"></div><div class="" id="adspot-970x250_728x90-pos2-sktop"></div><small class="_3azTn">Advertisement</small></div></div><div class="_2J452"><div class="_33oUB"><div class="tl7wu" id="endOfArticle"><p>The stg proposals exclus any public fundg that may be spent on the Y or No mpaigns. </p><p>The st of holdg a plebisce is enough to fund regulators like the <a href=">Atralian Competn and Consumer Commissn</a> or the <a href=">Atralian Pntial Regulatn Authory</a> for an entire year.</p><p>It n also ver the st of fundg specialist domtic vlence programs NSW over the next four years.</p><p>The $159 ln is not que enough to ver the $20,000 tax break for small bs ($250 ln) or ral assistance ($205 ln) for this fancial 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The road to full marriage equaly for same-sex upl the Uned Stat was paved wh setbacks and victori. The landmark 2015 Supreme Court se Obergefell v. Hodg ma gay marriage legal throughout the untry.

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GAY MARRIAGE

Whout the Nick Xenophon Team's support for the legislatn, the Government nnot rely on the crossbench, leavg the stg vote up to Labor the is holdg off on a fal cisn but has been raisg ser ncerns about a plebisce through the Opposn Lear Bill Shorten and other senr MPs and party has also been privately briefg reporters that will eventually block the there is a polil hch bee once a plebisce is off the table, the Labor Party is unlikely to be able to force a ee vote of both ho s are fears that uld punt the issue off to the next term of parliament, ensurg there is no prospect of gay people beg able to marry before the next do mean for voters?

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Early Years: Same-Sex Marriage Bans In 1970, jt one year after the historic Stonewall Rts that galvanized the gay rights movement, law stunt Richard Baker and librarian Jam McConnell applied for a marriage license Gerald Nelson rejected their applitn bee they were a same-sex uple, and a trial urt upheld his cisn.

” This lg effectively blocked feral urts om lg on same-sex marriage for s, leavg the cisn solely the hands of stat, which alt blow after blow to those hopg to see gay marriage beg 1973, for stance, Maryland beme the first state to create a law that explicly f marriage as a unn between a man and woman, a belief held by many nservative relig groups. Though the gay rights movement saw some advancements the 1970s and 1980s—such as Harvey Milk beg the first openly gay man elected to public office the untry 1977—the fight for gay marriage ma ltle headway for many years. In 1989, the San Francis Board of Supervisors passed an ordance that allowed homosexual upl and unmarried heterosexual upl to register for domtic partnerships, which granted hospal visatn rights and other years later, the District of Columbia siarly passed a new law that allowed same-sex upl to register as domtic partners.

C., 1993, the hight urt Hawaii led that a ban on same-sex marriage may vlate that state nstutn’s Equal Protectn Clse—the first time a state urt has ever ched toward makg gay marriage Hawaii Supreme Court sent the se—brought by a gay male uple and two lbian upl who were nied marriage licens 1990—back for further review to the lower First Circu Court, which 1991 origally dismissed the the state tried to prove that there was “pellg state tert” jtifyg the ban, the se would be tied up ligatn for the next three Defense of Marriage Act Opponents of gay marriage, however, did not s on their hnch. Congrs 1996 passed the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which Print Bill Clton signed to didn’t ban gay marriage outright but specified that only heterosexual upl uld be granted feral marriage benefs. That is, even if a state ma gay marriage legal, same-sex upl still wouldn’t be able to file e tax jotly, sponsor spo for immigratn benefs or receive spoal Social Secury payments, among many other act was a huge setback for the marriage equaly movement, but transient good news arose three months later: Hawaii Judge Kev S.

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Phg for Change: Civil Unns The next saw a whirlwd of activy on the gay marriage ont, begng wh the year 2000 when Vermont beme the first state to legalize civil unns, a legal stat that provis most of the state-level benefs of years later, Massachetts beme the first state to legalize gay marriage when the Massachetts Supreme Court led that same-sex upl had the right to marry Goodridge v. The state fally troduced the untry to gay marriage (m the feral benefs) when began issug same-sex marriage licens on May 17, that year, the U.

Bh—that would outlaw gay marriage across the untry. 2004 was notable for upl many other stat as well, though for the oppose reason: Ten typilly nservative stat, along wh Oregon, enacted state-level bans on gay marriage.

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Kansas and Texas were next 2005, and 2006 saw seven more stat passg Constutnal amendments agast gay towards the end of the , gay marriage beme legal var stat, cludg Connecticut, Iowa, Vermont (the first state to approve by legislative means) and New Hampshire. Domtic Partnerships Throughout the and the begng of the next, California equently ma headl for seawg on the gay marriage state was the first to pass a domtic partnership statute 1999, and legislators tried to pass a same-sex marriage bill 2005 and 2007. Perry legalized same-sex marriage early 2010s ntued the state-level battl over gay marriage that fed the precedg , wh at least one notable event.

For the first time the untry’s history, voters (rather than judg or legislators) Mae, Maryland, and Washgton approved Constutnal amendments permtg same-sex marriage marriage also beme a feral issue 2010, Massachetts, the first state to legalize gay marriage, found Sectn 3 of DOMA—the part of the 1996 law that fed marriage as a unn between one man and one woman—to be unnstutnal.

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Wdsor, nservative Jtice Anthony Kennedy sid wh Jtic Ruth Bar Gsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan favor of same-sex marriage rights, ultimately makg gay marriage legal across the natn June this time, was still outlawed only 13 stat, and more than 20 other untri had already legalized gay marriage, startg wh the Netherlands December 2000. ”But, 2013, the High Court found that marriage the Constutn clus “a marriage between persons of the same sex” and that “unr the Constutn and feral law as now stands, whether same sex marriage should be provid for by law is a matter for the feral Parliament” ma clear the feral ernment had the power to enact marriage more and more untri began legalisg gay marriage, Atralia was left behd.

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