Perhaps it was a case of don’t ask, don’t tell. Last November, the House of Representatives called on MPs to ”gauge” voter views on same-sex marriage. But it turns out only about a dozen of the lower house’s 150 politicians have so far formally canvassed the issue in their electorates.
The MPs who ran public consultations were, in the main, the ones with most at stake: inner-city representatives from seats where a majority of voters believe marriage should not be exclusively confined, as the Marriage Act says, to a man and a woman.
Resources and Energy Minister Martin Ferguson was one of the only inner-city Melbourne MPs to survey his constituents. But Mr Ferguson, who represents the progressive, green-belt suburbs of Northcote, Fairfield and Thornbury, is refusing to release his results.
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