Public leadership, personal opinion by Liam Moore:

One might argue that every day which passes where same-sex marriage is illegal is an injustice. Personally, I would – but my views, like the PMs, are not the point. The point is that while same-sex couples may have to wait a few years – months? – before they have the right to marry, they will have a very long time to remember just how wrong Julia Gillard used to be.

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Legislating for two jokers and a cocker spaniel by Ken Parish:

Tonight’s 7:30 Report featured a story on gay marriage. Strangely though, it didn’t even mention in passing the fact that there is significant doubt as to whether the Commonwealth Parliament even has constitutional power to legislate for gay marriages. The Commonwealth only has power to enact laws on areas of activity listed in the Constitution itself. One of those is “marriage” (Constitution s 51(xxi)). But what does “marriage” actually mean? There’s no doubt what the vast majority of the “Founders” understood when they used the expression way back before 1901. They meant a union for life between a man and a woman. They didn’t mean a union between two blokes or two women. They would have agreed emphatically with Paul Keating’s trenchant observation that “two jokers and a cocker spaniel don’t make a family”.

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