Latest poll predicts huge Yes victory for marriage equality
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The latest poll shows 64 per cent of voters in the marriage equality survey said they voted Yes.
The Guardian poll suggests a strong victory for marriage equality, with results to be released next week.
The groups most likely to vote Yes were Greens or Labor voters, people aged under 35 and women.
Just 31 per cent of those polled said they voted No, with another 5 per cent declining to reveal their vote to the poll.
While Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has said he supports marriage equality, the matter still must go to a parliamentary vote in the event of a Yes victory for the postal survey.
Anti–marriage equality campaigner Tony Abbott has said the No campaign will continue fighting against changes to the Marriage Act.
Alex Greenwich, independent MP and co-chair of the Equality Campaign, has said there is no reason marriage equality shouldn’t be in effect by the end of this year.
“We have a very robust marriage equality bill. There’s no need for any more process. We’ve got the bill—it’s time for parliament to get this done,” Greenwich said last week.
Polls over several years have consistently shown majority support for marriage equality in Australia.
The official results of the postal survey will be revealed on November 15.
Y the hell if The YES vote is counted on the 15th as YES….. Y should the Parliament have to Vote..
Enuff time has been wasted. Enuff Money has been wasted..
It Is Time to get inline with New Zealand & Ireland (being a Catholic and Protestant nation) Vote YES
If the Government Votes No Then We Vote Them OUT…..
I want to marry my wife
Well I hope so. Still, I believe there will be found to be a significant difference between the polls and the results.
The fact is that the No campaign ran a fairly masterful campaign if their intention was to blur the issues, scare undecided voters and scream about their being oppressed, and that can’t be ignored. The Yes campaign was good in that it was simple, honest and made a lot of the broad public support (eg the large rallies etc) but I can’t help but think we should also have gone negative (eg “Tony Abbott says vote No to save religious freedom. The fact is that Catholics like Abbott oppose mandatory reporting of paedophile priests by their colleagues. Vote Yes to send a message that we don’t stand for paedophile priests.”)
Nevertheless, it would be fairly unprecedented for a poll to be so wrong that a 64-36 Yes result in a poll turned out to be a 51-49 No result which is what I was predicting a couple of weeks ago.