Derryn Hinch (Victoria, Derryn Hinch's Justice Party) Share this | Hansard source

Mr Attorney General, if you are so concerned about the stakeholders, how come in 2004 you did not ask the Australian public what they thought when you inserted the words 'man and woman' into the Marriage Act—and the High Court ruled it was your job to do it? How come you did not approach the Australian people when you said that official foreign marriages would not be recognised here in Australia? You talk about families, but you have damaged hundreds and thousands of families—wonderful families of same-sex couples. You have damaged them. (Time expired)