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Your ideas are not immune to criticism just because you express them with sincerity: people are worthy of respect, ideas are not.
Two new laws have grappled with ideas of diversity and the traditional family in Germany.
Malcolm Turnbull’s postal plebiscite on marriage equality is on the cusp of recreating the mistakes of Doug Lowe’s Tasmanian dams plebiscite.
Michelle Grattan and Nicholas Klomp discuss the week in politics.
Politics podcast: Derryn Hinch on surviving the senate
After spending a year immersed in the parliamentary machine, broadcaster-turned-senator Derryn Hinch is keen to see a more efficient Senate.
While Bill Shorten has little at risk, his campaigning on same-sex marriage could come to Malcolm Turnbull’s aid.
The key question in a legal challenge to the ‘postal plebiscite’ is whether information about Australians’ opinions on same-sex marriage constitutes ‘statistical information’.
Tony Abbott, who resoundingly won an election being “Dr No”, will bring all his formidable attack skills to trying to kill the push to change the definition of marriage. In a pitch that sees him lined…
The government seems determined to give voters a voice on marriage equality, and equally determined not to be bound by what those voters say.
The marriage equality movement could still back the plebiscite on condition that its results are binding.
The University of Canberra’s Deep Saini and Michelle Grattan discuss the week in politics.
Politics podcast: Tiernan Brady on same-sex marriage showdown
Tiernan Brady, a leader of the successful 'Yes' campaign on same-sex marriage in Ireland, has been working with activists in Australia to get marriage equality over the line.
If the push for change lost in the Liberal party room, would the rebels abide by the decision, or would they cross the floor when, for example, there was a move by Labor for a vote in parliament?
Cabinet minister Peter Dutton has strongly renewed his push to have same-sex marriage settled this term via a postal vote on the issue.
Just as Taiwan legalised same sex marriage, China shut down the country’s most iconic lesbian social media platform.
As the Liberals fight and manoeuvre, the Nationals are watching on appalled, privately wondering at Turnbull’s inability to control even his moderate supporters, let alone his party as a whole.
Tony Abbott’s second major public intervention this week prompted a radio interviewer to ask Malcolm Turnbull whether his leadership was under threat.
There has been a decrease in the proportion of Australians who are married, and an increase in co-habitation of both heterosexual and same-sex relationships.
More broadly, Pyne’s self-indulgence is damaging to Turnbull because it reinforces everything the party’s malcontents on the right believe.
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