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...
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Deciding everything through surveys? It sounds like "The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer".
let 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.
Anon: yes, but the government is only in the position it is because it promised a plebiscite, which is a way of gauging public opinion.
As 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.
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