Watch the Yes campaign’s new ad for the postal survey on marriage equality

Watch the Yes campaign’s new ad for the postal survey on marriage equality
Image: Photo: The Equality Campaign / Supplied.

The Equality Campaign has launched a new campaign featuring Ian Thorpe to advocate for a Yes vote in the postal survey on marriage equality.

The High Court today dismissed two legal challenges against the government’s ability to fund and carry out the postal survey, meaning the survey will go ahead starting next week.

Tiernan Brady, Executive Director of The Equality Campaign, said, “We are in it to win it.”

“We are committed to doing all in our power to ensure that the long held wish of the Australian people for marriage equality for all Australians is reflected in the results of the survey.”

The Equality Campaign says the Yes campaign for marriage equality will lead a national conversation encouraging every Australian to vote for fairness.

“This must be a campaign of millions of respectful conversations that unites the country,” Brady said.

“We haven’t a moment to lose and we are hitting the ground running with hundreds of thousands of supporters talking about why marriage equality matters.

“This is a vote about the worth, dignity and status of members of our family, friends, workmates and neighbours, and across the country people are standing up for them.

“Today the Campaign releases new TV and radio advertisements calling supporters across the nation to get out and vote.

“We know that the Australian people support marriage equality but no one can be complacent – it is all about getting as many surveys returned as possible.

“We call on everyone to participate and to talk to their family and friends to make sure they do too. Together, lets get this done,” Tiernan Brady concluded.

Head to The Equality Campaign’s website to see how you can volunteer, donate and contribute to the Yes campaign.

Watch the new advertisement, which features Ian Thorpe, below:

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7 responses to “Watch the Yes campaign’s new ad for the postal survey on marriage equality”

  1. On a lighter note!
    Why do people insist on referring to the issue as “Same Sex Marriage” rather than “Same Gender Marriage”?
    “Same Sex sounds horribly boring to me.
    I have been having Same Gender Sex for more years than probably most of Star Observer’s readers have been alive! and it has never, ever been the same! Yes, the outcome has been but the route (Pun intended) to get to that point has always been different.
    Of course the wording has been made obtuse.
    That is what Public Servants and Politicians excel at!
    They can never ask a simple question with a simple YES/No answer,
    They have to turn it into an exercise to show how much gobbledegook they know. Just check out some of their reports which rather than keeping things brief and to the point go on for 100s of pages!
    I shall be voting YES and my family, some of whom make no secret of their homophobia (mind you they as good as they dish out!) are also going to Vote “Yes” for, like myself, they believe this is entirely an issue of EQUALITY.

  2. Hi Briam,
    The question is answered with either a Yes or a No. The question is: Should the law be changed to allow same-sex couples to marry.

    This gives the parliament an idea of whether people want the marriage law to change to achieve marriage equality. If the majority of people vote YES, they want the law to change and the coalition has promised they will let parliament have a discussion and vote on a new law.

    The next steps will be debating what the new law should look like in parliament and finally, a vote to decide the new law.

  3. Hi,

    I just watched the Yes campaign’s new video ad and failed to see enough diversity in the people featured. As a gay man from an ethnic group I did not see myself represented, just a majority of anglo whites.

    Regards, Arthur

  4. Hi,

    I just watched the Yes campaign’s new video ad and failed to see enought diversity in the people featured. As a gay man from an enthnic group I did not see myself represented, just a majority of anglo whites.

    Regards, Arthur

  5. I had heard today that the question on the survey is worded rather ambiguously in order to create confusion so that if people answer it wrong their votes won’t count. The whole process seems to be designed to produce a NO vote. Does anyone know if the actual question has been released yet. I am hoping there is an instructional campaign launched to show people how to ensure they are voting YES.

    • G’day Briam, the ABC is reporting “The paper will ask: “Should the law be changed to allow same-sex couples to marry?” ” on their website.

      But yes, the whole process is not designed as one would expect for a purely statistical exercise (and not a vote, and the reason we know it’s not a vote is that’s what the government argued in the High Court). If it is a purely statistical exercise, it is the exercise of measuring the proportion of Australians who are over 18 as at early September, on the electoral roll as of that date, are able to receive post, who are not moving house or overseas without a stable postal address (even if near an embassy), WHO CAN BE BOTHERED RETURNING A POSTAL VOTE ( because internet voting is not allowed despite the ABS spending millions of taxypayer dollars in recent years to manage this) are homeless etc.

      It is a stitch-up. You are right. But that is not a reason to boycott, because that doesn’t help at all. It’s good to be right, it’s more important to be helpful.