Is Mise,

"The Australian people have spoken and they have voted
overwhelmingly "yes" for marriage equality..."
Stated our Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.

And the legislation has now been passed in our Parliament.

Foxy,

Nobody, least of all me, disputes that 61.6% of the eligible voters, who voted, endorsed the proposal with a majority of Yes votes.

My problem is that the statement which you attributed to the ABS that

"61.6% of the Australian population votes YES" is incorrect i.e. wrong.

61.6% 9f the population is a greater number than the number of eligible voters.

There are 24,000,000 (+) Australians and 7,817,247 voted Yes
that is 3.26%

REPEAT 3.26%

Now, do you see why the figure of 61.6% of the population that you attribute to the ABS, as voting YES, is wrong?

No wonder you can't find a reference.

Is Mise,

I'm not arguing with you.

We seem to be talking at cross-purposes here.

I did explain throughout this discussion exactly
what was meant by the given stats and what they
represented. Yet you continue to be focused on
the wording of one sentence - while an entire
explanation followed that sentence. That's
silly.

Even our Prime Minister stated that "The Australian
people have spoken and they have voted overwhelmingly
"yes" for marriage equality."

Are you going to correct him as well.

Goodness me.

"No point olagonin' the score, it only makes things worse."

Foxy,

"The Australian people have spoken and they have voted overwhelmingly"yes" for marriage equality."

No problem with that, as a general statement it is indisputable truth but it is not a statement attributed to the ABS, only to the PM.

You attributed a statement to the ABS, in a supposed direct quote and that statement is demonstrably wrong, others, mostly newspapers have also said that 61.6% of the Australian population voted Yes, they are also wrong but sloppy reporting and an eye grabbing headline are to be expected from the common media.

Is Mise,

There's no getting through to you - it seems.

I don't see the point in continuing.

You do not believe that I did get that statement
from the ABS. I do not lie. It was right at the
start when the results were first being published.
I do not make things up. It's an occupational
habit. Unfortunately the only mistake that I will
admit to is that I did not copy down the link.
I was more interested in copying down all the figures
and explanations that they listed. Which I have quoted
on page 8.

Anyway, I shall leave it there.

As Maya Angelou once pointed out:

"I've learned that people will forget what you said,
They will forget what you did. But people will
never forget how you made them feel."

You have to weigh up what's more important to you.
To try to prove someone wrong at all costs.
Or to allow them to
keep their integrity and believe what they have been
trying to tell you.

Your choice.

Issy, please provide a link, a newspaper article, something from Hansard, even a book reference, which shows the Australian people were overwhelmingly supporting the Korean War. The only event at the time that could be linked to that atrocious war is 'Pig Iron' Bobs anti communists referendum. Which failed!

Did "Our Boys" in Korea get to vote in that referendum?

BTW, if 61.6% of the Australian population had voted yes, then you could claim overwhelming support for the bloody war. Not so lucky, are you!