Senate debates

Wednesday, 24 August 2011

Petitions

Marriage

3:03 pm

Photo of Ron BoswellRon Boswell (Queensland, National Party) Share this | | Hansard source

by leave—On behalf of Senator Polley and myself, from Tasmania and Queensland respectively, I table a petition of 52,000 signatures supporting the current definition of marriage as outlined in the Marriage Act—namely, that marriage means a union of a man and woman to the exclusion of all others, a union that is voluntarily entered into life.

Photo of Stephen ParryStephen Parry (Tasmania, Liberal Party) Share this | | Hansard source

It is probably not the appropriate time to be lodging a petition.