The senate has overwhelmingly rejected taking marriage equality to another poll, and recommended the parliamentarians do their fuckin well paid job and legislate on the issue, and for Turnbull to allow the Lieberals a free vote.
THE Senate has joined the state parliaments of NSW and Western Australia in officially backing a motion that rejects a marriage equality plebiscite and urges Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to grant his Liberal Party a free vote on the issue.
Tabled by South Australian Greens Senator Robert Simms, the motion also said a plebiscite — which is expected to take place after the next federal election — would encourage hate speech and cost an estimated $158.4 million of tax payers’ funds.
Simms’ motion, which was passed on the voices yesterday, comes two months after a Senate report that stated marriage equality should be resolved “urgently” by a vote in Federal Parliament.
The Senate report, which was published after an inquiry that saw cross-party senators gather to hear from several groups for and against marriage equality, also stated that a public vote of any kind on amending the federal Marriage Act to enable marriage equality is unnecessary.
“Australians don’t want another opinion poll on this issue. They want the parliament to legislate,” Simms, the Greens’ spokesperson on marriage equality, said in a statement. Star Observer
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