Unfortunately for Tony Abbott the majority of the population supports gay marriage and believes in climate change.
Jason84,
Their belief is governed by the contents of their back pocket, nothing else, or hadn't you noticed that at the last election ?

Jason84 the majority of the Australian population clearly does not support gay marriage or believe in climate change. If it did, Kevin Rudd would have been elected.

Instead, Australians elected a government precisely because they believed it would scrap the carbon tax and other policies associated with climate change, and because of the strong perception that it would not introduce gay marriage.

Surely the changing climate is not a 'social issue' in the same way as immigration and marriage? It is a life and death issue, a survival issue well beyond social. It's too late to prevent catastrophic change, but surely we should be doing something to mitigate the worst effects? The USA is creating a police state in order to control civil unrest, and buying up land and resources in Africa and elsewhere, while constructing military bases to protect these assets which will sustain wealthy Americans. What are we doing to ensure that at least we will have food? Fracking and mining on our food growing lands?
As for Marriage, surely the aim is an equal right to the same sort of marriage as heterosexuals, called marriage equality? I hadn't realised gays want a specific type of marriage for themselves, called gay marriage, How bizarre.