Penny Wong says equality should be a matter of policy – not a question of conscience – in an impassioned plea for the ALP to endorse same-sex marriage.

The federal Finance Minister has rebuked the Prime Minister’s proposal that gay marriage be decided by a conscience vote, and rejected her oft-repeated support for the current definition of marriage.

In a column penned for The Saturday Age, the left-wing cabinet minister, whose partner, Sophie Allouache, is expecting the couple’s first child in December, says a conscience vote ”should not be Labor’s answer to the calls for equality within the party and the wider community”.

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