My feeling is that the High Court should find that the government can't spend the money on the same sex marriage postal survey/plebiscite/Turnbull escape strategy. George Williams thinks so, and that's good enough for me.
Which would lead me to go back to my previous suggestion: let the government get a quote from Newspoll for doing a really large sample poll on the matter, and say that if there is a clear majority far enough outside of the margin of error, the Government will let it go to a vote in Parliament.
Update: Well, HC goes its own way, again. They're getting hard to pick...
Deciding everything through surveys? It sounds like "The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer".
ReplyDeletelet the politicians do the job they are paid for. I am totally against same sex marriage however it is up to Parliament to change the laws it if thinks it should.
ReplyDeleteAnon: yes, but the government is only in the position it is because it promised a plebiscite, which is a way of gauging public opinion.
ReplyDeleteAs a way of gauging public opinion, a voluntary post survey is subject to the same problems of internet polls. I would presume its accuracy is entirely dependent on participation rate.
Just do it via a polling company and be done with.