THE most important issue regarding marriage equality is not marriage — the important issue is equality.
For this reason, the term “gay marriage” misrepresents the issue. The real issue is equal rights for all Australians, regardless of their sexuality.
Tasmania may have been the last state to legalise homosexuality, but now it may be the first to legalise same-sex marriage, after the Premier’s motion to introduce the country’s first state-based gender-neutral Marriage Act.