You can’t fail to have noticed we’re soon to have a postal vote on same-sex marriage. But it’s the people who don’t vote who, paradoxically, could have the biggest impact on the poll.
In the lead-up to a vote on legalizing same-sex marriage in Australia, vitriolic campaign materials, including fliers calling homosexuality “a tragedy of a family,” circulated this week in Melbourne and Sydney.
Australia is facing a tidal wave of homophobic hate speech ahead of an unauthorised vote on equal marriage that pretty much no one actually wants. What the hell is going on?
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has pleaded with both sides of the same-sex marriage debate to campaign respectfully, describing the use of abusive language as hurtful and deplorable.
Australia's Catholic church is threatening to fire teachers, nurses and other employees who marry their same-sex partner if gay marriage is legalised, in a dramatic move led by the country's most senior Catholic.
The High Court has agreed to hear a challenge to the Federal Government's same-sex marriage postal ballot on September 5 and 6, with a directions hearing to be held on Thursday.
