Malcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Minister for Communications) Share this | Hansard source

the decision on marriage equality should be taken: whether it should be a free vote in the parliament or whether it should be a plebiscite and at what time the plebiscite should be. All of those options had advantages and disadvantages and they all had merit—each of them completely and utterly democratic. They do not go to the principle—the substantive question. It is simply a matter of resolving it. Our parties, our government, have decided that it will be dealt with—

Mr Griffin interjecting—

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