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Christian Lobby thanks Bill Shorten for plebiscite veto
Gay marriage opponents thank Labor leader for knocking back same-sex marriage plebiscite: "We now have more time to continue building our campaign."
Michael Koziol is a journalist with Fairfax Media.
Gay marriage opponents thank Labor leader for knocking back same-sex marriage plebiscite: "We now have more time to continue building our campaign."
The decision casts marriage equality off into the never-never, with the Turnbull government adamant a plebiscite is the only way to achieving reform.
The Turnbull government struck a blow against unions and scored a key tactical victory when its reforms targeted at the Victorian Country Fire Authority passed the Senate late Monday night.
One Nation will deliver Malcolm Turnbull a key win in the Senate this week.
The government is considering extra funding for mental health groups in the event of a plebiscite, an admission it could harm LGBTI people's mental health.
Fresh from flogging the iconic Jackson Pollock artwork Blue Poles, Liberal senator James Paterson has prescribed a much more dramatic medicine for budget repair: ending all arts and sports funding.
National Australia Bank boss Andrew Thorburn says his bank stopped giving money to Australian political parties "to be clean" and to avoid public perceptions of impropriety or graft.
Hotel owners, bakers and florists who object to same-sex marriage would have their legal cases bankrolled by a new fighting fund quietly set up by the Australian Christian Lobby.
Attorney-General George Brandis has refused calls to resign amid an extraordinary and escalating brawl engulfing the country's top lawyers.
"There's been a sense that while money may buy some us influence and ingratiate us, but it also may make us look tainted."
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