{"id":105376,"date":"2016-09-04T12:38:24","date_gmt":"2016-09-04T20:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=105376"},"modified":"2016-09-04T12:38:24","modified_gmt":"2016-09-04T20:38:24","slug":"left-wing-parties-in-australia-want-the-government-to-legislate-gay-marriage-while-the-conservatives-want-a-plebiscite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=105376","title":{"rendered":"Left-wing parties in Australia want the government to legislate gay marriage while the conservatives want a plebiscite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australians almost never vote for constitutional change.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/same-sex-marriage-runs-into-roadblocks-in-australia-1472466167\">WSJ<\/a>: CANBERRA, Australia\u2014Efforts to legalize same-sex marriage in Australia are hitting up against a splintered Parliament after July elections drastically weakened conservative leader Malcolm Turnbull\u2019s government.<\/p>\n<p>While the prime minister is pushing for a popular vote on the issue, which he and a majority of the public support, some members of his conservative coalition oppose same-sex marriage. Before the July elections, the government promised to hold a popular vote on same-sex marriage to test public support.<\/p>\n<p>But opposition to a plebiscite, the result of which wouldn\u2019t be binding on the Parliament, has been gaining momentum. A small but influential centrist party on Monday joined the country\u2019s third-biggest political force, the Australian Greens, in opposing a popular vote despite supporting legalization of marriage equality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australians almost never vote for constitutional change. WSJ: CANBERRA, Australia\u2014Efforts to legalize same-sex marriage in Australia are hitting up against a splintered Parliament after July elections drastically weakened conservative leader Malcolm Turnbull\u2019s government. While the prime minister is pushing for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=105376\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-homophobia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105377,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105376\/revisions\/105377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}