All Australian vote but only 9 people created Homosexual marriage laws in the USA
As senior Liberals retreat from Attorney-General George Brandis’s commitment to hold a plebiscite by year’s end, Mr Morrison was adamant that all eligible voters be forced to participate in the nationwide opinion poll.
“It is a compulsory vote … which is different to what was done in other places like Ireland, so everyone will have to show up like they do in an election,” the Treasurer, an opponent of same-sex marriage, told Sydney’s 2GB radio.
“I think that’s important because we’re going to make this decision — everyone is going to have to live with whatever that decision is on the other side — and the more people that can participate in that in a respectful way, the better.”
The Treasurer has also favoured a double-majority, with proponents of same-sex marriage requiring a majority of the vote in a majority of states — thereby enhancing the influence of less populous, more conservative states such as Western Australia.
“What we need is a public vote, a people’s vote which is a compulsory vote — we are not running some sort of news poll on the public purse,” he said in August last year.
