Pleased to see Foxy and JB sticking to the topic.

Aidan managed to get the economy in. I don't know why you do that, mate, particularly given the stupendous spendathon inititiated by your Labor friends. With Bill promising more of same, without the surplus usually left behind by the Coalition, voters wont give thought to the Government's economic performance.

Mikk as as splenetic as ever, wanting to vote on everything that the Government wants to do. Good luck with that mate.

The thing is, a vote might very well give the green light to same-sex marriage. I wiil certainly be very disappointed by that, but at least I will be reassured that Australia is still a democracy. The voters wil have made the decision.

Shocadelic,

I should have said 'I' will accept it, but you might be surprised just how many people accept that democracy doesn't mean you get what you want all the time. After all, somewhere around half of us don't get the government we want at every election.

' The issue certainly can no longer
be ignored. The time has come for the issue to be
voted on.'

yeah quick quick Gillard/Rudd had close to 7 years and hardly a whimper from the regressives!

One minor little problem the coalition will have to win the next election, before we get a vote on the subject, my guess at this stage is they won't, and if labor wins then it will simply be put to the Parliament. Labor might have a problem getting the bill through the senate, but at this stage trying to guess who will hold the balance of power in the senate is a stab in the dark.

Wamair,

You have a point, but I hope your prediction on the election result is wrong. I hope that Australians would not forget the horrendous consequences of the last Labor governments after a mere three years. Given what they left behind, and the fact that Abbott is continuing to spend money that we don't have instead of reining in the Coalitions excesses, there will not be the usual surplus for Labor to plunder. I shudder to think of the consequences of another Labor government so soon; if Australian voters' memories are now so short, then we are doomed, and same sex 'marriage' will be the least of our concerns.

the average Australian might be required to think before getting a vote on gay 'marriage'. That is what the regressives are afraid of. Maybe a few more kids brought up by lesbians and men living in homosexual relationships might get a voice. That is the thing that makes the socialist bigots afraid.