After the Government took a policy to the July election to hold a plebiscite on same-sex marriage, lobbying has increased about the form that the vote will take with the Prime Minister and various of his Ministers making statements about how it will be conducted, mostly to say that it will be along the lines of a referendum without providing much detail. As this could be a forerunner to any plebiscite conducted on the Republic, this is a key issue for campaigners. So, we wrote to the Prime Minister to set out our opinion on any Yes/No question, how the question might be framed and about the undesirability of a high hurdle proposed by the PM of a majority vote in four States ahead of legislation being brought into the Parliament. The text of WfaAR’s letter can be read on link below.
Download: WfaAR Letter to Prime Minister About Plebiscite [55KB, pdf]
